Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most of the previous postwar elections it could be safely assumed that the Christian Democrats would gain the largest individual share of the vote, with the Communists coming in a distant but looming second. No longer. In regional elections last June, the Communists gained 33% of the vote-only two points less than the Christian Democrats. Either alone or in coalition with other leftist groups, they gained control of such strategic cities as Turin, Florence and Naples; there and elsewhere they have on the whole provided effective and honest local government...
...earlier interview with TIME (June 30, 1975), you said that you were in no hurry to gain power in Italy. Do you still feel that...
...want to have the members under me who will be willing to obey me even though they may have to disobey their own parents and the Presidents of their own nations. And if I gain half the population of the world, I can turn the whole world upside down...
Those who will gain the most by the court's decision are the sick and the aged, who spend large amounts of money on prescription drugs but are least able to shop actively for them. For consumers in general, the advertising of drug prices could represent a saving of as much as $380 million a year, according to one survey. A revealing statistic: drug prices in states that permit advertising average 5.2% lower than prices in states that do not. One big question that remains is how much advertising there actually will be. Even in states where such advertising...
...using psycho-biographical analysis to explain presidential decision-making. The psychological model dictates that his mother trained him to help the meek; but the political model--far more cogent when it comes to explaining this consummate politician's behavior--dictates that he pushed for civil rights programs to gain black votes. In this case as in others, the psychological model is only one of several ways to explain presidential decision making, and often the least important...