Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side effect most commonly complained of is weight gain-up to 20 lbs., say some women. Yet most gynecologists believe this was caused only by early, high-dosage forms, and that today's one-milligram pills rarely provoke a gain of more than five pounds. The sequentials usually cause less weight gain than the combinations. The next most frequent complaints are nausea ("like being four months pregnant"), breast tenderness and breakthrough bleeding. These usually disappear within three months...
...round of the arms race (TIME ESSAY, Feb. 24) without, as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara has noted, adding one whit to the security of either side. Thompson's task is to convince the Russians, who have an almost paranoiac regard for defense, that they have nothing to gain-and billions to lose-by attempting to upset the balance with an ABM fence...
Thomas Jefferson urged that, "where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question, he is to withdraw." Almost nobody follows Jefferson's rule. Argues Minnesota's Senator McCarthy: "For the most part, the gain to the individual Congressman includes the advancement of an interest that is shared by many other persons, including constituents. Consequently all of these would be unrepresented and would suffer if the individual member refrained...
...attack on the manager, Crane strongly implied that DeGuglielmo was in a position to gain politically if, after raising the rate his first year in office, he could lower it this year when all nine councillors are up for reelection...
Harvard divers Bill Murphy and Pete Alter were eliminated Saturday after the first round of the three-meter diving competition at the NCAA swimming championships in East Lansing, Mich. Murphy, diving in his first national championships, slipped up in an early dive and was unable to gain enough points to remain in the contest...