Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wyatt said the use of the imprinting machines, which resemble those used to register credit-card purchases, would allow the University to keep an exact record of the number of students who had used invalid cards to gain admission to dining halls...
Sampson's style involves two basic steps. First, he must establish a close rapport with his patient and dispel any tension or distrust the patient may have. Sampson says he can gain this trust just about anywhere--in a coffeeshop or over a drink. But he says he feels this is a critical stage because he must make his patient believe that hypnosis is useful in a practical way, that it is natural and far removed from the talent show or the circus. Sampson then applies one of a variety of hypnotic techniques--he has a repertoire of about seven...
...Puerto Rico, a swimmer trains only for the infrequent big events such as the Olympic and Pan American trials. Consequently, Fayer said she did not have to push herself at home; she merely "did what had to be done in order to win." This helps explain her inability to gain qualifying times for the Nationals...
...then the panorama changed. There was a law designed to restrict, though not discourage, foreign investment. Echeverria's rhetoric became much more specific: a militant anti-American position in order to gain economic and political independence. Internally, Echeverria managed to alienate the powerful industrial group of Monterrey and, to a large extent, antagonize the private sector as a whole. He drained the treasury to carry out lavish and ill-timed industrial projects in a country that sorely needed to spend its resources only on necessary things such as social development. He toured the world in search of Third World solidarity...
Chavez was more than willing to clasp the Teamsters' hand. He expects his union to gain 22,000 new members by year's end. With a firm base in California, the charismatic Chicano could then move on to other Western states. Last week's U.F.W.-Teamsters agreement applies to 13 Western states for five years, and provides that after two years the unions will begin negotiations to make the agreement national. If that happens, the agriculture industry could be forced to drop its opposition to a national collective-bargaining law for farm workers, and Chavez could...