Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Negro freshmen gain by seeing upperclassmen hammering out their problems. A substantial number of AAAAS members are also involved in other activities--the CRIMSON, WHRB, PBH, to name only a few. The Association also has its specific activities...
...among moderates, particularly in altering the course of the war, has caused many to become far more concerned with the "system" itself--the total distribution of power. If the power structure would not yield to reasonable demands and if real authority was somehow masked, then those who sought to gain reform would have to first figure out how the system worked. The most important goal would be to alter the distribution of power, rather than achieve immediate substantive ends...
...military insist that the program has a payoff for them. "The more people come to share the barracks life with our troops, the more deeply will our organization be understood," says General Shoji Wada, commander of the central Japan military district. Company executives see an even more practical gain. In army camps, says Toshio Shiba-yama, director of Tokyo Mutual, "young people are bound to learn something about the vital importance of team work." This spring, for the third year in a row, Japan Air Lines sent its new crop of employees to an artillery camp. Company President Shizuma Matsuo...
...compared the human organism to a corporation which "gains information to gain capital (energy) which in turn improves its chances of gaining more information...
...they carry out the murder in his book Viet Cong (pp. 247-250), so I will not go into that here. What I am concerned with now is the fact that the Viet Cong follow the Vietnamese principles even in this repugnant activity; for this reason they gain positive support of many people...