Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...measure of this success is the fact that Prime Minister Harold Wilson, long opposed to joining the European Six, seems converted to the cause. Last week he stumped the Continent to gain support for British membership. If Charles de Gaulle ever withdraws his veto and lets Britain in, there will be other prompt applications for Common Market membership; most of the seven members of the European Free Trade Association, which has achieved a success of its own, want to join...
...some areas have alreadly actively committed themselves to the Maoists, while in other areas they are siding with the opposition. Such an uncertain situation forces army officers, as it does many others in China, to be wary of precipitate action. They may hope that by delaying they will gain time to pick out the eventual winner...
...step on Wall Street seemed springy indeed. With a burst of daily trading that surprised brokers-a daily average of 9,544,000 shares v. 7,500,000 last year-chart lines for the New York Stock Exchange pointed almost steadily upward. Boosted at midweek by a one-day gain of 10.41 points, the Dow-Jones industrial average finished the week 12.03 points higher than it began. Overall, the industrials had risen 61.47 since the year began, stood at week's end at 847.16, or as high again as they were last August. Some brokers predicted that the industrial...
...been continuously occupied in recent years in raising large amounts of new capital, in the first instance to meet a backlog of accumulated need. There have been two widely publicized successes in the effort. The first was the Program for Harvard College which ten years ago set out to gain $82.5 million and in the end it succeeded in raising $103 million. When the task of providing in Lehman Hall a center for the non-resident Dudley House is completed in January 1967 and when the tenth undergraduate house, now on the architect's drawing board, opens in September...
...report shows that although the number of concentrators in engineering continued to decline last year, concentrators in the newer, "related" field of Applied Mathematics increased enough to show a total yearly gain for both fields combined...