Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard changed its present policy and leased the Stadium, everyone would gain: the private organization, the University, and the community. The Patriots, without an acceptable stadium, might sell out to other cities. There have been several offers made recently. Harvard could collect about $200,000 per year, plus improvements on the Stadium. For Boston, professional football is both an economic boon and a promoter. Cities scrape for a franchise during a league expansion...
...been vigorous enough, as well as one who feels that the U.S. should stop bombing and work harder for peace, could both wind up voting against the in party. The elections of 1966 seem sure to bring reverses for the Democratic Party, but just how big the Republican gain will be is a question no one can answer until after the polls have closed...
...Steel's surprising dividend cheered Wall Street's professionals. So did a New York Times survey showing that the profits of 485 major companies rose by an average 6.7% in the first nine months; without General Motors, the average gain would have been 12.5%. Also bullish: reports from Washington and from the American Bankers' Association convention in San Francisco last week that the worst of the credit squeeze appears to be over; forecasts by the Commerce Department that in 1967 capital spending will increase by a healthy 8% and the gross national product will expand...
...week reported record profits of $272 million for the third quarter, up 3% from the same period last year. Mobil, Cities Service and Standard of Ohio also set profit records. Gulf's alltime peak earnings of $122 million for the quarter were 20% higher than last year. Best gain of all the majors was registered by Atlantic-Richfield, whose nine-month profits climbed 32%, to $83 million. For 1966 as a whole, Standard & Poor's estimates that the industry's net will increase 11.4%-more than double the 5.3% average annual gains since...
Some critics have complained that the camera has crippled this ballet with its frequent close-ups. For years, however, the best-equipped balletomanes have been training their opera-glasses on ballet stars to gain precisely the close-up effect. So what harm to let the camera lens do the work of opera glasses...