Word: gain
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...attitude of the Corps toward the universities. The Corps` rejection of its old methods of training as irrelevant to a life of active participation in social change is also a rejection of the curriculum of most universities. If marks the beginning of a concentrated push by the Corps to gain a significant role in American education...
...Republic. In testimony before the committee, Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach contended without dispute that two-year terms force most Representatives to campaign year-round, to the neglect of their legislative duties. No one denied his argument that two years is hardly time enough to gain background for the deluge of bills-11,856 in 1965 alone-that demand a Representative's consideration...
There are some who gloomily expect a society run by a small elected elite, presiding over a mindless multitude kept happy by drugs and circuses, much as in Huxley's Brave New World. But most futurists believe that work will still be the only way to gain responsibility and power...
...room section of Emory's Wesley Hall dormitory. The brashness of Bubba Sutton, 24-year-old son of a Marietta, Ga., building contractor and former student on the world-circling University of the Seven Seas, provided the main push. He flew to New York to gain the backing of General Lucius Clay, to Los Angeles to get Bob Hope to make part of a television special explaining A.V.N. to Georgia viewers, to Miami to get Singer Anita Bryant out of bed and persuade her to take part in the stadium rally...
Paradoxically, the U.S. payments deficit in 1965 fell to $1.3 billion, less than half the drain of the year before and the lowest level since 1957. The biggest reason: a $2.25 billion drop in bank loans to foreigners. Offsetting that gain, however, imports rose faster than exports, partly because of dock strikes and partly in response to the demand for goods from free-spending consumers and businessmen. Result: the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-shrank from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion last year. The trend, said Connor, remains a "very serious" problem...