Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They also questioned Kain's preference for hiring less experienced younger faculty and giving them extensive sabbaticals to gain experience, rather than hiring practicing, experienced professionals...
...remaining loose billions? The company will not say, and many analysts believe that it probably does not know. At the moment, analysts foresee no new products of great significance on IBM's drawing boards, and thus massive outlays for development seem unnecessary. But shareholders still stand to gain from IBM's buyback: with fewer shares on the market, a potentially higher value awaits the ones outstanding...
From the very beginnings of the international oil trade in the 1920s, Blair discovered a pattern of price fixing and cozy marketing arrangements by which the big companies divided up the world for their own gain and tried to ruin any small independent firm that sought to cut prices or intrude on their turf. No other industry, Blair implied, so depended on bribes and payoffs...
...Watch the fencers epee, foil and sabre their way against the Elis in an attempt to gain the Ivy tri-title with Penn and Cornell. This is big stuff. Practically a diploma requirement. Be there. On guard...
...heirs, and recent estate tax-law changes have made it less lucrative to keep it all in the family. Beyond all that, newspapers themselves are making financial headlines. Industry pretax profits were up as much as 70% last year, from 1975's depressed levels, and another, though smaller gain is expected this year. Nationwide average daily circulation last year edged upward to 60,800,000, the first increase in three years, and advertising revenues exceeded $10 billion, a gain of more than 19% over...