Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee joined last week with other opponents of the Belt in an attempt to create a new, larger group, called "Save Our Cities." Meeting Thursday at Simeone's, an Italian-American restaurant that would be destroyed by the highway, they constantly emphasized the need to gain mass public support for the fight against the highway...
...major Red drive, but a Vietnamese army embroiled in political maneuvering is less than the best ally. Moreover, fully 50% of the army's officers are Catholic, and already the Catholics are restive over Ky's concessions to the Buddhists. If, in their drive for elections, the Buddhists gain too much favor or show too much fer vor, the Catholics could well come out fighting into the streets on their...
...that the new corporation will give the paper a time limit to turn into a moneymaker. Denying any such stipulation in the merger, the editors complained that such rumors scare off advertisers who have been growing more friendly of late. Last year Trib advertising revenue showed an encouraging 7.3% gain...
...Catchup. Most of the new breed had old family fortunes to build on, and they used that base imaginatively. Indian companies were formerly privately owned hodgepodges put together, without economic rhyme or reason, over the years. The new boys have turned their enterprises into stock companies to gain additional capital and are carefully tailoring operations so that they complement one another...
...Quakers, winning two key doubles matches, upset the Crimson last year on their own hard courts, 5-4, to gain a three-way tie with Princeton and Harvard for the Eastern Intercollegiate Tennis Championship...