Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home-rule bill sailed through the Senate with ease. But when a similar bill finally reached the House floor, it had been considerably diluted in an effort to gain support for passage. Furthermore, once debate began, the House Democratic leadership saw its forces -split over how much more of the bill to concede-begin to break ranks. As they did, the anti-home-rule coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats quickly took command. As on countless previous occasions when similar bills have come up, opposition to home rule was largely rooted in congressional fears that the nation's only...
...been dramatically strengthened by percentages that McNamara himself so often recites that they have become known around the Pentagon as "the litany": a 200% increase in both the number and destructive power of U.S. nuclear weapons; a 45% rise in the number of combat-ready Army divisions; a 51% gain in the number of tactical fighter squadrons; a 100% increase in both military airlift capacity and in naval construction; a tenfold jump in the size of special, counterinsurgency forces...
...name of the violator was changed, depending on which side was making the complaint. With only 41 U.N. observers on hand to patrol nearly 1,000 miles of contested border, it was impossible to tell who was the true aggressor. Clearly, both India and Pakistan had a lot to gain - and little to lose - by trying to grab more territory while they could. Old U.N. hands recalled that it took 123 days for the Suez cease fire to really take effect. The Indo-Pakistani cooling-off period was likely to take just as long - or longer...
Activity by the main rebel group, the National Liberation Front, which operates out of nearby Yemen, had been on the upswing ever since August. It was then that a London conference to prepare plans for a South Arabian federation, which is due to gain independence in 1968, broke down in disagreement.* On Aug. 29, a British police superintendent was assassinated, the eleventh Briton to die by rebel violence in the past 21 months. Two days later Sir Arthur Charles, the British Speaker of the Aden Legislative Council, was shot and killed as he was leaving his tennis club at sundown...
...Sales have been running ahead of 1964 all year," says Otto Eckstein of the Council of Economic Advisers. "It has been the same story virtually every month." August actually ran at a 5.6% gain, well below the 9% gain of January and February and the 8% gain of July-but merchants feel relieved that the advances have continued. Across the U.S., one big department store after another is reporting sales gains over last year: up 15% for Atlanta's Rich's, 18% for San Francisco's Gump's, 6% for Dallas' Neiman-Marcus...