Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choice of barbarism over civilization that Mao has made. Such a rejection of anything involving the intellect surely goes to show that only when the people are ignorant animals responding to a war cry as inarticulate as it is destructive can a movement like the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" gain any momentum...
...pains not to rock the boat with any overly controversial decisions before Election Day. In this situation, G.O.P. leaders privately concede that they stand scant chance of recovering the 38 House seats they lost in the '64 Donnybrook, figure they would be doing well to score a net gain of 30 or 35, plus one or two in the Senate...
...merger had never been an especially happy one, even though both papers had expected to gain by joining forces to form a third agency, Chattanooga Publishing, which handled all business operations. Editorial staffs and editorial operations were entirely separate, but everyone was on the payroll of Chattanooga Publishing; expenses and income were split evenly. If the Times got an indirect boost because the Free Press boasted a larger circulation (63,418 to 55,615), the Free Press, on the other hand, accepted no liquor ads, yet shared the Times's earnings from all the liquor advertising in town...
...market turned down again on the final trading day, with the industrial average losing 4.40 points to close the week at 787.69 for a modest 7.13-point gain. Still, a drop is traditional before holiday weekends, when professionals lighten their risk by lightening their holdings...
...going into new areas, the company hopes to escape the cost-boosting wastes imbedded in most building codes, zoning and subdivision ordinances. It expects to gain a free hand for technical experiments by guaranteeing to rip out and replace anything that fails to work. By creating its own captive market, the company should be able to absorb the immense cost of technical innovation that inhibits many promising new building ideas. "We have been a supplier of products for houses," ex plains George T. Bogard, head of G.E.'s recently created Community Systems Development Division...