Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Walker's loss. The prickly Governor had managed to alienate almost every organized power in the state-the legislature, unions, the teachers and especially the political liberals, who could not forgive him for supporting capital punishment and cutbacks in state aid to education. Walker also failed to gain the backing of any of Chicago's three daily newspapers. Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III described the Governor as a man of "consuming personal ambition" who had "paralyzed the state by a failure of leadership...
...said western firms export the products made by the workers and reap the profits of their production without leaving any of the economic gain in the third world...
Many observers have predicted the bill would gain a handy majority on the Senate floor, but so far its opponents have kept it from reaching a vote. The blame for the Senate's inability to move can be laid to several causes, but anybody's list will include the name of Senate Ways and Means Committee Chairman James A. Kelly...
...Yariv, professor of electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology, predicts that optical circuits will permit and, indeed, encourage an increase "by a factor of thousands" in the amount of information flowing in and out of the average home as people use their phone lines more and more to gain access to everything from their checking accounts to computers and consumer services. A single glass fiber can now be made to carry up to 672 one-way conversations simultaneously. This means that eight fibers, a bundle no thicker than a pencil lead, could do the job now being done...
...Tufts is getting a very distinguished and extraordinarily competent scholar, Harvard's loss is Tufts' gain," Marquand said...