Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult for foreign students to gain access to an equivalent exam, the law will favor the "priviliged few" who can come to the U.S. on a visitor's pass to take the National Medical Board Exam, Sanders said...
...most recent performance, St. Lawrence placed second to Boston University in the ECAC Holiday Festival at Madision Square Garden. And whom did the Larries beat in order to gain the finals? Bowdoin, a Division 2 team, of course...
...Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain independence for a new "Saharan Arab Democratic Republic" and the 100,000 people, mostly Reguibet tribesmen, it would represent...
...General Motors officials said that 1977 could be a record year, with car sales hitting 11.25 million, slightly ahead of this year. Bank loans have shown an upturn, indicating renewed business demand. Though reports on Christmas sales are conflicting, merchants at least hope they will wind up with a gain. Says James Lutz, executive vice president of Chicago-based Montgomery Ward: "The weather is with us, and we're going to have the best Christmas ever...
Reflecting the new optimism, the Dow has already climbed from a postelection low of 924 on Nov. 10 to 979 at the close of trading last week, a gain of 55 points in five weeks. Monte Gordon, research chief of The Dreyfus Corporation, believes the Dow could hit 1100 in the first six months of next year, surpassing its alltime, January 1973 high of 1051.70. About midyear, Gordon predicts, the Dow will slide back to 1025 or so before moving up again to close 1977 somewhere between 1100 and 1150. Analyst Edson Gould of Anametrics, Inc. who has gained...