Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists undeniably won a victory of sorts. The sort that once again makes it painfully clear that we are fighting a war we cannot win-a war in which we have nothing to gain and much to lose...
...real "Walter Mittys," in the words of one University President, the spring was a hectic scramble to get out of service legally. Many hired lawyers to give them advice and to defend them if they needed it. Others looked into bizzare possibilities: setting up an agricultural cooperative to gain II-C exemptions as farmers, applying to Divinity School, undergoing psychoanalysis. For many, the ploys worked. But the pressure was enormous. For many, the greater part of the Spring semester was spent trying to figure out ways to evade the draft, and failing...
They are a world removed from the robber barons of the '20s, who manipulated markets for their own gain. But while their motives are proper enough, and their actions usually beneficial, Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin, the apolitical conscience of the nation's economy, has warned that the managers of the institutions wield a potentially dangerous amount of market influence...
...find a "hot" industry and then recommend one of the most depressed companies in the field. Explains one top broker: "In a good industry, with profits going up quarter by quarter, even the garbage is going to go through the roof. If you want to make the biggest gain, you pick the most marginal company...
That comeback by private enterprise is particularly impressive because, in the best of circumstances, it is virtually impossible for private business to gain a foothold in a field totally dominated by the Federal Government. In this case, the biggest part of the job was to beat the red-tape-ridden FHA at its own game. The door to competition was opened by FHA's rigid 6% ceiling on interest rates, which President Johnson last week asked Congress to abolish. In recurrent periods of tight money, banks and other lenders have increasingly shunned FHA and Veterans Administration loans...