Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possessed of the New Frontier stamp. He finally settled on Eugene Nickerson, 48, a smooth, handsome type who is county executive in suburban Nassau. But Kennedy declined to fight openly for Nickerson. While Bobby waited in vain for Nickerson or someone else acceptable to him to gain momentum, O'Connor worked hard and successfully rounding up delegates for next month's state convention...
Verwoerd sends technical assistance to the British protectorates of Bechuanaland, Basutoland and Swaziland, and when they gain their independence, all three territories
...federal judge Dudley B. Bonsal said that Lamont had bought his stock after a press conference announcing the discovery, and therefore, had not violated the law. The law prohibits "insiders"--officers, directors, and major stockholders--from using privileged information for their own gain...
...last five years have shown that the House Un-American Activities Committee can survive and even prosper without the full thrust of nationwide McCarthyism. Congressmen are scared to oppose the committee because they know such a move would cost them ten-fold the number of votes they might gain. The courts, while increasingly unwilling to convict uncooperative HUAC witnesses of contempt, are even less willing to pass judgment on HUAC constitutionality -- for fear that in so doing they would spur a major confrontation between Congress and the judiciary over the separation-of-powers issue...
Unenforceable Rule. The committee paid no heed to minor side effects such as acne and weight gain. Even on the major effects, the pills cannot be certified as completely safe until after years of detailed study on tens of thousands of patients. But the committee felt confident enough to recommend that the FDA stop forbidding doctors to prescribe the pills for more than four consecutive years. To this the FDA agreed. The rule is unenforceable and penalizes poor patients getting the pills at clinics. Apparently, the committee concluded, the pills cause no major harmful effects within four years...