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But Saxon's money-earning was doomed to cease ignominiously and tragically.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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And as a result of being awake, my job-job, which has seemed so all-important to me for far too long, has faded into its proper place as money-earning and sometimes enjoyable pursuit.
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The coach of a powerful, money-earning football program had a big foot on campus?
No Easy Cleanup at Penn State Jason Gay 2011
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These included: changes to British patent laws which provided effective protection for those who came up with money-earning ideas; philosopher John Locke's arguments that man has rights to property where labour had been added; pioneering work on early steam engines by Savery, Newcomen and Papin; the discovery of latent heat by Watt's Glasgow University friend Joseph Black; and the ability to make industrial devices of real precision.
The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry and Invention by William Rosen 2010
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The story revolves around the Shaw family with its two sisters, brother, money-earning father, and helpless shut-in mother.
Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010
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Because it was a big money-earning pairing, wasn't it?
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But not all of the work presented is dire: a podcast with curator Dr. Masum Momaya and social economist Naila Kabeer describes ways that political organizing has improved women's money-earning potential in both the formal economy.
Emily Goligoski: Virtual Exhibit Economica Spurs Discussion of Women's Global Earning Potential 2009
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Clare Winterton, executive director of the social change-oriented IMOW, said the topic of women's money-earning capacity worldwide had been planned as the exhibit to follow last year's "Women, Power and Politics", which generated participation across 200 countries.
Emily Goligoski: Virtual Exhibit Economica Spurs Discussion of Women's Global Earning Potential 2009
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It has meant pushing for money-earning craftsmaking projects, like the famous Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery and packaging preserves, herbs and spices, which are marketed through alternative outlets in Jerusalem and Ramallah.
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These trends, however, did not fundamentally change the gendered patterns of work in the kibbutz: most of “the women — the mothers” continued to work in the services, while most of the men, the “producers,” kept on working in “the really productive, money-earning branches” of industry and agriculture.
Kibbutz. 2009
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