Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...volatile Middle East, Ford has authorized massive support for Israel ($4.3 billion in aid in the past two years), along with measures designed to gain the trust of the Arab states, such as economic aid and arms sales. Acknowledging that Kissinger's tactic of step-by-step diplomacy may have achieved all it can, Ford suggests that the next move toward a Middle East peace probably should be a general conference...
...court directive. Until the President signed the bill and appointed new members to the commission, the FEC would be unable to refund candidates for legitimate expenses under the campaign spending law. The FEC had been in limbo for over seven weeks, and, once reconstituted, Ronald Reagan stood to gain the most in reimbursed funding...
...John J. Toomey. The 67-year-old Toomey, entrenched in the legislature since 1943, has been an undistinguished practitioner of old-style machine politics. Graham, however, has fought vigorously in the city council for rent control, and for the rights of the city's minorities. Graham has tried to gain a seat in the state legislature before, but this time she has a better-organized campaign and a steadily weakening opponent. Graham would serve well as a new voice for Cambridge in the state legislature...
Enrollment over the last decade has gone as high as 950, and as low as 500. "We gain out of problems in the economy," Duesenberry said, "but you can't predict anything...
...Harvard? Everything. Of late, women have been invited to enter a world that has been constructed by men for men's use, delectation, and betterment. The question is, do women merely want to participate in this world that we had no share in making. Don't we need to gain the space to look around and decide what things look like to us? Since reality is primarily a male construct, the female student is put in a peculiar position. She can either ignore the potential difference between the prevailing view and what she might see if she had a chance...