Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those who think they are liberals "will do all in their power to help me gain entry to someone else's school or job," Leonard said. "They will say it's not genetics that make black folks inferior, it's environment. But the bottom line is the same," he said...
...sensitive girl who falls into hooking" in Jockeys, a new play about a Puerto Rican jockey on the way up. To research the part, Pam grilled a prostitute acquaintance for details of the life. She even slipped out between rehearsals to Manhattan's raunchy Times Square to gain insight into the local working girls at their trade-and to have her picture taken...
...income that they receive as a supplement to Social Security benefits; last year the 15% credit applied to only $1,524 of supplemental income, and then only if the money came from such sources as private pensions-not wages earned in a part-time job. Gain to taxpayers: nearly $1 billion. Married couples get the credit on income up to $3,750. The credit does not go to people with relatively high Social Security benefits...
...Psychology at Harvard Medical School and a well-known authority on the psychological aspects of religious conversion, said last week that the power of the Unification Church's conversion process is "so very, very great...it is frightening." He explained that the first step for the proselytizers is to gain access to their potential converts. In Joy's case, as in a large percentage of cases, this happens on the street. Clark said that Church members tend to concentrate on airports, bus stations, or student unions. They want to contact people who are in transition, who are unsure of themselves...
...courts have long upheld the rights of editors to decide for themselves. This privilege is not as cost-free as some editors argue: foreign political leaders often deplore and consider harmful the sievelike nature of the American Government and the blabbiness of the American press. The gain is in a public informed, in time to redress wrongs. Advantage and disadvantage are not always in neat balance. Where in other societies only authority prevails, here what is not authority's domain is left to conscience. The heartening fact, to judge by the record, is that the graver the issue, the more...