Word: gain
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Slipped Linkage. The President even seems willing to give up, at least for the present, his strategy of using arms talks as a carrot to gain other understandings. Nixon took office believing that the Johnson Administration had mistakenly pursued an arms pact with the U.S.S.R. without regard to basic political conflicts between the two countries. "What I want to do," he told his first presidential press conference, "is to see to it that we have strategic-'arms talks in a way and at a time that will promote, if possible, progress on outstanding political problems at the same time...
Nearly four years ago, Cesar Chavez called la huelga-the strike-against many of California's growers of table grapes, seeking to gain for farm laborers the same rights of union recognition and collective bargaining that industrial workers have long enjoyed. Success at first was minimal. Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee won few contracts with table-grape growers; three of them have subsequently sold out their table-grape vineyards. In 1968, the union called for a nationwide boycott of California grapes, deepening the hostility between union and growers into seemingly hopeless stalemate...
Propaganda Beamed. Both Russia and China could have figured to gain something from staging the clash. The Russians were quick to accuse the Chinese of "trying to poison the good atmosphere" of the Communist summit in Moscow. Peking might hope to show up Moscow as the aggressor before the world's other Communists. Clearly disturbed by the incident, Russia hastily summoned several of its ambassadors to Asian countries back to Moscow for consultations...
...backlash against student violence continues to gain strength. In North Carolina, for example, the state legislature is now weighing five bills dealing with campus disorder, with penalties ranging from revocation of scholarships to six months in jail. Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin all have legislation pending, and other states are still to be heard from...
...facts are summed up in a new study prepared for the nation's top five orchestras-New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago-by the management-consultant firm of McKinsey & Co. Because rocketing costs -most notably, sharply increased salary scales-have not been met by a similar gain in income, the orchestras' combined annual operating deficit rose from $2.9 million in 1964 to $5.7 million in 1968. The loss will soar to $8,000,000 by the 1971-72 season unless drastic steps are taken...