Honda's F1 team endured a deeply disappointing 2008 season on the track, earning just 14 points to leave them the lowest of the nine points-scoring teams.

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If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent.

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True, considerable numbers of young, educated people come to New York, but it turns out that many of them leave for the suburbs or other states as they reach their peak earning years.

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Yet this brave new world of music still seems to leave the artists at the bottom of the pile when it comes to actually earning money.

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