This is Carl Kruger's legacy as he shuffles off to his richly earned prison cell.
Instead, it became a decade that richly earned the name "the zeros".
We believe they have richly earned, and might even benefit from, some years in the political wilderness.
Of course, one could say that some presidents richly earn the low regard in which they are held.
"Senator Dole has richly earned his reputation as a hatchet man tonight," said Mr. Mondale, who instantly concluded that the exchange had made him the debate's winner.
As he grew older, the river turned gray, then dried up altogether, but the wrinkles of age and dissolution that he had so richly earned never materialized.
Germans, above all, should be grateful for the European Union's role in helping to remove the stigma that Germany so richly earned in two world wars.
As the clock slipped past midnight and turned into Monday in the East, the producers of "The Hurt Locker" accepted their richly earned Academy Award for best picture.
In the last few weeks, the president has clouded the reputation for clarity of purpose and resoluteness that he richly earned after Sept. 11.
And with their interminable patent suits they richly earned their reputation as competition-stifling monopolists.Stuck with the Wrights, Mr Tobin concentrates understandably on his subjects' deeds rather than on their characters.
But Pitt, though personally deeply in debt most of his life, never took money for himself, with the single exception of his wardenship of the Cinque ports - and that was an honour richly earned.
