Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during registration week, the number of Harvard students registering for the first time jumped 25 per cent over two years ago. Election workers have set up registration tables in Harvard dining halls in an effort to gain more voters...
...Undergraduate Education (CUE) analyzed ERG's plan and others for more than a year. Finally, last spring, CUE sent the Faculty Council its thoughtfully constructed, long-in-the drafting study abroad proposal--aimed at relaxing the rules on study abroad to make it possible for more students to gain credit for foreign studies. Their work finished, CUE students packed up and headed home for summer vacation...
...eight sure "ayes" and possibly as many as twelve. The only question is how many amendments will be added by the committee and how damaging they will be. Full Senate debate is expected to begin some time in November. Majority Leader Robert Byrd feels that the treaty will gain support if the debate is televised and the public becomes acquainted with the basic issues. But he wants to avoid boring people by limiting discussion to a maximum of four weeks, which would require the Senate's unanimous consent...
...savagery levelled at Israel from the rest of the General Assembly. When he bound Zionism to Nazism, Castro mocked two concepts dear to the Jewish people--the integrity of history and the integrity of language. As Castro brandished the term "genocide" he trivialized, for the sake of immediate political gain, the past suffering of the Jews. But far more dangerously, this reckless misuse of the term bodes ill for oppressed all over the world. For as he toyed with the language of mass murder, Castro made the crime less horrible, more familiar; if he eventually succeeds in bringing the word...
...personal consequences of discovery and apprehension as he was with mission failure. Failure would plague him, give him no rest...Zlin did not consider his act theft, nor himself a thief. He was acting on behalf of his government and would retain none of the money, nor derive any gain from...