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Self-preservation is generally one of the highest priorities for well-paid grasses, and thirty pieces of silver was a lot of money.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Andrea Jungef executive position, but she will still be a well-paid executive chairman.
Chutzpah in the C-Suite: Watching Out for No. 1 John Bussey 2011
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But the job, which can earn a director roughly $42,000 a year at small banks, is "not well-paid, and then there's the threat of potential litigation."
Small Banks Feel They're Under Fire Jean Eaglesham 2011
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Self-preservation is generally one of the highest priorities for well-paid grasses, and thirty pieces of silver was a lot of money.
Palm Sunday 2009
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The educational future for D.C. families is unfortunately starting to look like it was in the pre-Rhee days, with children trapped in public schools with incompetent but well-paid teachers who cannot be fired for all practical purposes simply because they are union members.
DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 15, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011
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Boras, who controls more players than any other baseball agent, is followed on our list by Scott Leventhal, whose well-paid mediocrities in 2010 included Gary Matthews Jr. and Jeff Suppan.
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Only an idiot and these performers are hardly idiots--they have well-paid agents, managers, publicists, and entourages could claim they didn't know what was going on.
Thor Halvorssen: A Royal Wedding Divorced of Human Rights Concerns; Dictators Will Eat Wedding Cake Thor Halvorssen 2011
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On its own face their actions are ludicrous and the well-paid media honchos should be equally ashamed.
Michael Russnow: Should Anthony Weiner Resign for Lying?: If So, Lots More Congressmen Should Go for Their Lies and Deeds Michael Russnow 2011
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I left a private-sector, well-paid hospital nursing job to work at the community level and took a pay cut.
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I found this constant pressure, to have a well-paid job and stuff like that, just increased unhappiness.
No country for young people: is this generation under strain? 2011
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