Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...petition, drawn up by Mark A. Zern '69, concludes that the educational and social gain of keeping the dining hall open is worth any "reasonable expenditure." The petition will be circulated in the other Houses today...
...advocates of the recruiting plan argue, the Ed School also stands to gain from an influx of disadvantaged students. Minority group students bring with them a gut comprehension of the problems of their communities, and the Ed School cannot hope to function effectively in its urban training or research until it has the benefit of their perspective...
...volume reached a record 17.73 million shares, toppling the old mark of 16.41 million shares set on Oct. 29, 1929, the Black Tuesday that triggered the Depression of the '30s. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks jumped 20.58 points, its biggest one-day gain m 41 years. Traders agreed that it was an emotional outburst...
...minutes behind the action on the Big Board floor. Perspiring brokers cheered again and again as volume figures flashed across the magnified tapes projected along trading-room walls. The bellwether industrial average soared more than 13 points before profit-taking sales pulled it back to a modest 5.15-point gain...
...Bernbach, one of the top ten, last year lost seven clients, including Broxodent Tooth Brushes, Ocean Spray Cranberries, Rheingold Beer and Warner Bros. At the same time, DDE picked up 14 new ones, including the Sylvania division of General Telephone & Electronics, Parker Pens and American Tourister Luggage. The net gain in billings was $10 million and DDB scarcely stopped to worry. Says Foote, Cone & Belding's Founder, Fairfax Cone: "We can have a cancellation tonight, without anyone batting an eye, of a $1,000,000 account. This means $150,-000 of gross income we had counted on that...