Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans have always been a violent people," the scholars found. Interest groups have typically used force both for protection and to gain their ends, but few Americans recall their heritage of violence. The civics-book image of America as a Promised Land, the task force lamented, has obscured in most citizens' minds the fact that their country's history is littered with illegal acts of violence...
...access to Western publications without fear of reprisals. There is, of course, censorship; certain books, like Milovan Djilas' works, are not available, and the press is controlled. Yugoslavs, if they can afford it, can travel abroad freely, in the East or West. Conversely, Westerners, whether tourists, businessmen or journalists, gain ready admission to Yugoslavia. By scrapping Communism's harshest dictates, the Yugoslavs have created a thriving market-oriented Socialist economy in which the workers share profits and managerial responsibility...
...allotted television campaign with key supporters from the French political center, thereby inviting further defections from the already depleted opposition. He planned to visit six more cities across France, plainly hoping for a wide national mandate in the runoff election June 15. As if to help him gain it, the French Communist Party took the unprecedented step of ordering its followers to abstain from the voting altogether. If every Communist voter hewed to the party line, Pompidou was already assured of a majority. No Frenchman expected it to end quite that neatly, but as the campaign entered its final week...
...Association's platform reflected this public-persuasion strategy. Instead of dealing with specific proposals like ghetto school improvement, it concentrated on broad tactics. It planned to "gain active participation from as broad a segment of the community as possible," and to "provide mechanisms for citizens and business leaders to work in the best interests of the schools...
...meeting also decided to have pickets outside the Yard during commencement, and to collect tickets to commencement from seniors so that those SDS supporters who are not seniors would be able to gain entry to the Yard for the commencement action...