Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sounds like a threat to me," Everett I. Mendelssohn, professor of the History of Science, said yesterday. "Baltimore knows that the city appointed a very competent commission to look into the matter, and now he seems to be trying to gain a bit of leverage over...
...initial advantage, but Springfield's Kevin Cassedy got a reversal and a near fall to take the lead. But Albert avoided the pin, turned the tables on his opponent and then, after the two grapplers traded reversals, got yet another reversal and a near fall of his own to gain an 8-7 lead after two periods...
Statistics 103, Introduction to Statistics. An introduction to the basic concepts and methodology of statistics. Students will gain skills in handling elementary problems of the probability, distribution and random number of dollars. Caveat: Students actually expecting to rely on statistics can expect a greater return by taking Statistics 135, Introduction to Statisticians...
...left a lot of nouveau riche loot lying around. Yet Belmondo keeps running into pushovers--sycophantic social climbers and corrupt concubines--and it looks as though all of Paris has conspired to make his capers unchallenging. After a half-a-film full of perfunctory purloining, he hopes to gain fresh inspiration from a legendary thief, Cannonier, recently released from Devil's Island. But Cannonier has gone off on a revolutionary tangent, and for all his Marxian trouble gets shot in the back by a policeman. There seems to be no romance in crime anymore: soon Belmondo's partner quits...
...initial results are not promising. Lately no Angels have been tied up or stripped down, and there have been fewer dumb sex jokes. Dullness has been increased, but with no real gain in intelligence-and at the expense of the antic badness that sometimes enlivened the initial episodes...