Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million loan that was granted on Jan. 7, after Lance had accepted the sensitive OMB job, was a "sweetheart loan." Safire claimed rather breathlessly that the deal was an opportunity for the bank's chairman, A. Robert Abboud, who is extremely influential in Chicago Democratic politics, "to gain life-and-death financial control over the man closest to the President...
Negotiators have already hammered out not one but two treaties. The main document totally erases the old treaty under which the U.S. could exercise authority "as if sovereign"-a contentious phrase that provided for colonial power over the zone. Instead, Panama would gain full jurisdiction over the zone within three years. Meanwhile, the U.S. would operate the canal itself until Dec. 31, 1999-and then turn it over to Panama. Some 3,500 Americans working for the Panama Canal Co., which is entirely owned by the U.S. Government, would lose such perks as subsidized housing and bargain shopping at official...
...produce peace, he will be blamed vehemently by the Arabs and the region will be set perilously adrift, possibly toward war. In a bewildered, bellicose mood, Israel quite conceivably could defy Carter's considerable leverage on that small country by opting for war. The Arabs have everything to gain if Carter's peace plan works. But if it does not, they will consider the failure a deliberate lack of will on the part of Carter and the U.S., leaving them with no choice but to turn their backs on the West and take up other strategies...
...gain popular acceptance for their bills, the unions are planning a lengthy. $800,000 promotional blitz featuring newspaper ads, talk-show appearances and a massive direct-mail campaign. White House aides even solicited views of business leaders to find ways to soften opposition to labor-law reform and an increased minimum wage. Still, employers generally remain hostile to both measures. A coalition of business lobbyists, backed by a war chest of more than $1 million," is planning what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce describes as "a long and bitter battle" against the labor-reform proposals. Thus the stage...
...would break a lesser spirit. Finally, thanks to her beguiling charm, brains ("The bankers could not keep up with me ") and beauty, she achieves a success no other woman has ever attained-she becomes Broadway's boldest angel (a $57,000 investment in Hair brings a $2 million gain) and its hottest producer. And guess what? On the side, she concocts fantastic business deals that bring riches to her friends and show-biz backers-and yes, even to that little secretary who entrusted her life savings...