Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Board, which is made up of the deans and senior tutors, deals with both disciplinary and academic cases; there is no appeal from its decisions. It is apparently only in disciplinary cases that students would gain any advantage from testifying, and only if he were able to state the facts more clearly than in his letter...
...revolution by allowing the very young, the old, and the discontent to leave, eliminating a large segment of the population which consumes without producing. Theoretically the remaining devotees would be enthusiastic enough to suffer through the painful stages of development. Castro had nothing to lose and everything to gain...
...diseases went largely untreated and ate away at countless victims. Because we are "too nice" to call attention to the errors and other evils within one another's sectarianism, they eat away at our religious life. The less defensible the practices of a sect, the more it stands to gain by the "conspiracy of silence." While critics of sectarianism generally remain silent, zealous sectarians urge their points of view with emotional fervor. Free and frank evaluation would reduce many evils of sectarianism, but neither sectarian leadership nor sectarian dictatorship willingly sumbits to such evaluation...
...clothing industry seems to be acquiring a sharper look. It expects sales (excluding shoes) to climb from $10.2 billion to $11.7 billion this year. Buyers ordered 15% more than the year before when they looked at new spring suits last month; they are expected to top that gain when they return to Manhattan in two weeks for a show of 1966 sportswear. Last week the industry's leader, Hart Schaffner & Marx, reported that its orders are up 20%, predicted that its 1965 sales will rise 14% to a record $165 million...
...Gain. Fowler forecast last week that progress toward change will be achieved by next spring, and that the talks will be widened to include the smaller IMF members outside the Ten. That estimate is optimistic, but even France's Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing admitted: "The ice floe on reform has at last broken. People are now ready to talk business." Perhaps it was symbolic that, in their off-hours Fowler and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin played a brisk match of tennis against Giscard and his deputy, André de Lattre. Score...