Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beaman, who coaches Eliot's undefeated softball squad, said, "We've been pretty lucky." This afternoon at 1:30 p.m., the league leaders play once-beaten Winthrop in a crucial contest. Winthrop has come from ninth place almost to the top spot in Straus Trophy competition and can gain a tie for the softball title by beating the Jimbos. The Puritans are likely to have a tough time, though, against pitching ace Scott Levine, who has won all seven games...
...nationally broadcast policy statement on Vietnam last night, President Nixon outlined a plan designed to gain "a peace we can live with." He said that any peace settlement would have include mutual withdrawal of all non-South Vietnamese forces and guarantee elections for South Vietnam...
...another way of saying that we can preserve, much less refine our sensibilities only so long as we are in dynamic possession of them. We lose something every time Nixon makes a speech, or a Vietnamese hamlet is secured, or a superhighway inaugurated, a tinderbox subdivision implanted. We gain something each time we walk around a garden, rediscover a color or notice a refraction, see a movie by Sternberg or Renoir, vivify a remembrance, or enjoy a great work of music. There is an intense beauty in moving among this America of sloths in the avantagarde's mood of incorruptible...
...Jeff's top man and the tournament's third seed, in the semifinal round. 6-3, 6-3, and from that point, the singles became a Harvard practice session. Crimson captain John Levin whipped teammate Terry Oxford, who had played beautiful tennis all weekend, 6-1, 6-4 to gain the finals, then defeated Jarvis 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 to retain his individual singles title...
Even so, the pace of profit growth is slowing. In the third quarter of 1968, earnings had jumped by 14%. For the past two quarters, the gain has been just over 7%. The more recent results suggest that taxes and costs are overtaking businessmen's efforts to keep up profit margins-now roughly a nickel on every dollar of sales-by raising prices or increasing efficiency...