Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such opposition would gain levrage mainly from personal politics, which Vaupel opposes. "There's too much time spent cutting each other's throats...
...selective service system allows an undergraduate 4 years to gain a bachelor's degree. Conseqquently, in times of crisis, men who have interrupted their college study, either voluntarily or involuntarily, may find themselves in difficulty during their junior or senior year. Students contemplating a voluntary leave should certainly be aware of this, and students who are asked to leave the university should also be aware of the possibility of being drafted or having subsequent difficulties during the time they wish to finish their education...
...president of the World Union of Mallet Heirs, which is dedicated to recovering the legacy. Nor was she overly fazed last week when the French government indicted her for swindling 22,000 members of the Mallet union out of $66,000 in dues through "chimerical promises of eventual gain...
...young families of today. There is new emphasis on the 50% of the population that is younger than 25." To attract younger shoppers, all three major catalogues now lead with sophisticated styles. To make their clothes "in," counteract the year's lead time they must contend with, and gain more of the market, Wards and Penney have signed up name designers. Wards (last year's total sales: $1.8 billion) has twelve international designers, among them Jacques Heim, Rudi Gernreich, Fabiani and Clodagh of Dublin. J. C. Penney's (1965 sales: $2.3 billion) "Young Junior" look...
...Agriculture Minister, was scholarly Edgar Faure, 57, who as Radical Socialist Premier attended the Big Four summit at Geneva in 1955 and is a supporter of the Common Market. One of the few politicians of the Fourth Republic to gain the inner circle with De Gaulle, Faure was the emissary whose mission to Peking in 1963 was followed shortly afterwards by French recognition of Red China. His most important task will be to promote Common Market farm negotiations, and his appointment was clearly designed to placate the massive agricultural vote alienated in December by De Gaulle's hostility...