Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...policy. Time after time in Texas last week, Ronald Reagan thundered about the canal: "We bought it. We paid for it. We built it. And we are going to keep it." As President, Reagan vowed, he would say just that to any "tinhorn dictator" in Panama who sought to gain control over the waterway. The Reagan theatrics, designed to win him support in his dead-even showdown with Gerald Ford in the Texas primary on May 1, drew strong applause...
...campaign debate over economics is a recovery that is progressing faster than most economists had expected. The Government this week will release its estimate of first-quarter real gross national product (total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation); it is expected to show a 6% to 7% gain at an annual rate. Retail sales jumped 2.8% in March, on top of a 1.6% rise in February; auto sales in the first ten days of April leaped 33% above the 1975 period. Industrial production rose by only .6% in March, but the January and February advances were revised upward...
...efforts at getting anorexics to eat and gain weight are often frustrated by the patients' own drives to lose weight. Piazza says that anorexics describe "something bad inside them that has power over them--this is what they're fighting. The fight within them is between the part that wants to eat and the part that doesn't. The body is a battleground...
Masland says the anorexic sees weight gain at puberty as "a distortion and wants to deny her femininity." He says anorexics need "a good relationship with a psychiatrist so they'll develop a strong sexual identity, know who they are and where they're going...
Playing number one doubles, Reiner and Cliff Adler sweated out a close 6-3, 7-5, win over their Williams rivals. Todd Lundy, then teamed up with Shaw to gain a 6-1, 7-5, triumph, before Reiner and Levy mercifully put the Ephmen out of their misery in a 6-1, 6-1, laugher...