Word: gain
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Ford was also misleading in deriding Carter's claim that, if the economy and employment grow as rapidly as he anticipates, by fiscal 1981 there could be a $60 billion surplus in federal revenues. Ford's own economic advisers have projected an even greater possible fiscal gain: $75.5 billion. Nor was Ford accurate in claiming that current Georgia Governor George Busbee had found the state's Medicaid program "a shambles" on following Carter into office. The term does not appear in the Senate Finance subcommittee testimony Ford had cited. What Busbee had done, in fact, was to assail the Federal...
...three-month presentation of Juno - the most expensive Rembrandt ever purchased -- isn't all that Harvard stands to gain out of Hammer's presence...
...settlement are sufficient to require a quite different sort of agreement, and the front-line African presidents are right to have rejected this one. They do not appear, however, to have rejected the principle of negotiation with American involvement. This is also politically intelligent--Black Africans have nothing to gain from a bloody and protracted guerrilla war nor from the dependence on Soviet aid such a war would require...
...front-line presidents recognize that Kissinger is willing to sacrifice the marginal Rhodesia for the sake of consolidating the much more critical position of South Africa. But they also realize that it is possible at this point to gain a great deal for blacks in Rhodesia and Namibia by negotiation, while the situation within South Africa is considerably less hopeful for the moment. And despite the conservative expectations of Kissinger and Vorster's strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid...
...accept Jesus as a "personal Saviour." His decision came at a special series of "renewal" services at his church, where he heard a St. Louis minister preach on the famous text from the Gospel of St. John, in which Jesus tells Nicodemus that he must be "born again" to gain eternal life. "The sermon turned my life around," recalls Wright. Now he rises at 5:30 a.m. to read the Bible and pray. He joins fellow Christians in discussion groups and prayer sessions, including one he holds at his bank headquarters before work every Tuesday morning. Once reticent about...