Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Game, was an immense critical and popular success. The earlier book argued in breathtakingly convincing fashion the superiority of baseball to other American sports. Specifically, Angell cited the way in which baseball constructs its own temporal and spatial realities, its distinctive and relaxed pace that permits the spectator to gain a complete understanding of what is going...
...America, every one finds facilities unknown elsewhere for making or increasing his fortune. The spirit of gain is always on the stretch." So wrote Alexis de Tocqueville more than a century ago. Today, Americans are making fortunes as fast and ingeniously as ever. In this week's cover story on the Hot New Rich, we examine how a dozen new millionaires assembled all of these megabucks-and what they are doing with them...
Someone like Lindbergh who performed a daredevil stunt for public attention and financial gain does not, in my opinion, deserve the title of hero...
...certain that any type of economic or political system would change the way people behave toward one another." Tyndall is planning to go to law school and specialize in environmental law or some other area in which he can "help people and causes that are powerless to gain power...
...giving Benelli the cardinal's hat in order to make him a prospect for election as the next Pope. Although Benelli, 56, has a wide background as an administrator and diplomat (attaché to France, Brazil, Spain; nuncio to Senegal), he lacks the pastoral experience that he will gain as archbishop in his native Tuscany, as did Paul before he took the See of Milan. In a region long under Communist influence, Benelli will have to deal at firsthand with problems ranging from unemployment to abortion reform...