Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife, Monette Pavlovich, had at the same time falsified an application and a federal guaranteed loan form to gain entry to Harvard Business School. She was arrested about a month after her husband...
...McCarney, "king of the referendum," is more than a politician's foe. He's the foe of everyone interested in more than immediate monetary gain. Those buildings mentioned so casually in your article are desperately needed university facilities. If McCarney had his way, our state universities would simply be starved of funds till they died a natural death...
Rabbis' Support. Many Israelis are worried less about the mediocrity of the ministers than about the potential influence of the religious parties, which for the first time control the education portfolio. To gain the political support of the rabbis, Begin agreed to a list of 30 demands on religion-related issues, among them: autopsies will only be performed with a family's consent; women will only be able to get abortions for medical reasons instead of citing, as they now may, difficult "social or family conditions"; Sabbath observance will be tightened; girls opposed to military duty for religious...
Freddie Laker's Laker Airways, which plans to offer $236 round-trip tickets between New York City and London (TIME, June 27), will become the second scheduled British carrier on that run. Either Laker or British Caledonian, another privately owned carrier, will gain a route between Los Angeles and London. In addition, British airliners will be allowed to fly into Houston and Seattle and, after three years, into Atlanta and Dallas-Fort Worth...
...which Judaism considers idolatry, they often shun labels like "convert" or "Christian." Some retain Jewish traditions like Saturday worship and the wearing of skullcaps, or call their leaders "rabbis" and their meeting places "synagogues." To Jewish leaders such as Tanenbaum, they are simply Christian evangelists masquerading as Jews to gain more converts. In any case, since the late 1960s, perhaps 10,000 to 20,000 young U.S. Jews have decided to follow Jesus...