I sighed, thinking that among other things, people here seemed to be those who would have to cut down if they earned less than $85,000 yearly ; ;

As late as the year 1900, most industrial workers in the United States still worked a 10-hour day ( 12 hours in the steel industry ), yet earned from 20 to 40 percent less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life.

He also earned a reputation for being difficult on the set, often unwilling or unable to memorize his lines and less interested in taking direction than in confronting the film director with odd demands.

To put it in context, a domestic servant earned less than £ 50 a year.

While Bennett and Miller were already pursuing traditional careers, Cook had an agent due to his having written a West End revue for Kenneth Williams ; as a result, Cook's agent negotiated a higher weekly fee for him to participate, although by the time the agent's fee was deducted, Cook actually earned less than the others from the initial run.

Originally, bonus points could be earned for a fast ride cross-country ( less than the optimum time ).

Players also earned less in the AF2, with each player making $ 200 per game.

* There was a roughly 4, 400 workers, who earned less than BDS $ 200 per week.

On the other hand, it has been reported that Chinese has been used as the medium of instructions in some autonomous counties even though less than 50 % of the population " spoke and understood some Chinese "; this mismatch was thought to have contributed to the low grades earned by the students on the math and Chinese exams.

It opened to poor reviews and earned less than $ 3 million domestically ( from an estimated budget of $ 44 million ), eventually contributing to the near collapse of its studio, United Artists, and effectively destroying the reputation of Cimino, previously one of the ascendant directors of Hollywood owing to his celebrated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which had won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director in 1979.

Covington County was established on January 5, 1819, less than two years after Mississippi earned statehood into the Union.

They also earned the prestigious title of Reserve Grand Champion of the 2011 McCheseny Band Festival, losing only to the John I. Burton Raiders by less than a tenth of one point.

Academically, the district has earned " Blue Ribbon School " status, an honor reserved for less than 10 percent of Missouri's public schools.

The Circus was well received by audiences and critics, and while its performance at the box office was good, it earned less than The Gold Rush ( 1925 ).

During this same period, the overall tax burden on those that earned less than $ 10, 000 dropped from $ 155 million to $ 32. 5 million.

Henry had a childhood stammer and was considered slow-witted ; his less than stellar performance at Boston Latin School earned him punishments such as being forced to sit for hours in the girls ' corner wearing a dunce cap.

The latter is a more experimental, edgier and generally less mainstream combination of ' 60s and ' 70s-style soul vocals with some hip hop influence, and has earned some mainstream recognition through the work of D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Alicia Keys, and Lauryn Hill.

In North America however, it earned considerably less, grossing less than US $ 133 million.

The introduction by Cosmobiology of manifold planetary midpoints, mainly through the publication of Reinhold Ebertin's The Combination of Stellar Influences, has gained wide acceptance among astrologers, but the " formula " points of Uranian / Hamburg Astrology has earned less acceptance.

Older, long-term drivers earned substantially less.

The lowest 10 percent earned less than $ 77, 390, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $ 131, 440 a year.

Fish survived the attack in 1940 but won his election with less than half the margin of victory he earned 2 years earlier.

He had a humble background, and appears to have earned a living as a porter at the docks of Alexandria, hence his nickname of " Sack-bearer " ( Sakkas for sakkophoros ).

In September 2009 criticism over the seven-figure salaries earned by various coaches at Arizona's public universities ( including ASU ) prompted the Arizona Board of Regents to re-evaluate the salary and benefit policy for athletic staff.

The film earned over $ 60 million at the domestic box office, a strong return for a film that cost only $ 5 million to produce.

Traditionally, statistics such as batting average ( the number of hits divided by the number of at bats ) and earned run average ( the average number of earned runs allowed by a pitcher per nine innings ) have dominated attention in the statistical world of baseball.

* QS — Quality start: a game in which a starting pitcher completes at least six innings and permits no more than three earned runs

Since the runner would now have been at second anyway, the passed ball no longer has any impact on the earned / unearned calculation.

Neither the use of a pinch-runner to replace a baserunner who represents an unearned run nor the use of a pinch-hitter to continue the turn at bat of a batter who would be out except for an error transforms a run scored by such a person or his successors on base from an unearned run to an earned run.

When a pitching change occurs, the new pitcher is said to " inherit " any runners that are on base at the time, and if they later score, those runs are charged ( earned or unearned ) to the prior pitcher.

Lomborg spent a year as an undergraduate at the University of Georgia, earned an M. A.

Harold and Maude ( 1971 ) was not successful financially at the time of its original release, but has since earned a cult following and has become successful following its video and DVD releases.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Many courses start their caddies off at the B level, and after a year move them to A, and on their fourth year ( if they have earned it ), they will receive the title of Honor caddy.

Dino Zoff ( born February 28, 1942 in Mariano del Friuli ) is an Italian former football goalkeeper and is the oldest winner ever of the World Cup, which he earned as captain of the Italian team in the 1982 tournament in Spain, at the age of 40 years, 4 months and 13 days.

Rohrabacher graduated from Palos Verdes High School in Palos Verdes Estates, California, attended Los Angeles Harbor College, and earned a bachelor's degree in history at California State University, Long Beach in 1969.

Campbell was awarded the CBE in January 1957 for his water speed record breaking, and in particular his record at Lake Mead in the USA which earned him and Britain very positive acclaim.

The genesis of EVM occurred in industrial manufacturing at the turn of the 20th century, based largely on the principle of " earned time " popularized by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, but the concept took root in the United States Department of Defense in the 1960s.

The SV will be 0 at project completion because then all of the planned values will have been earned.

Lake had earned huge sums of money in the insurance business at the turn of the century but gave away his possessions with the exception of food for his children while he and his wife fasted on a trip to Africa to do missionary work.

Additional points ( with no maximum at the highest levels of competition ) can be earned depending on the difficulty of the moves and the length of time taken to complete the ten skills which is an indication of the average height of the jumps.

Lineker began his football career at Leicester City and became known as a prolific goalscorer ; despite failing to score in his first ten games, he finished as the First Division's joint top goalscorer in 1984 – 85 and earned his first England cap.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar in 1928 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and earned her Master's degree at Yale University in 1930.

He earned a law degree at McGill University in Montreal.

It earned $ 7, 012, 630 in its opening weekend, and its total U. S. domestic tally stands at $ 71, 583, 916 and it grossed $ 90, 683, 916 worldwide .< ref >