Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where they stand." Reagan's only motive for staying in after North Carolina would seem to be to keep Ford hewing to the right and to influence the party platform, the choice of Cabinet officers and the vice presidential nominee-perhaps Reagan himself, although Ford would seem to gain nothing from him as a running mate. In fact, the President's men hope to force Reagan to abandon the race and thus allow Ford to move toward the center. That would help him attract the independent votes he will need to win in November. The effort was made...
Hating myself for doing this, as losers gain no honor in verbal warfare post facto, I must say that your very partisan reporting did little justice to the great championship basketball game involving Leverett and Eliot Wednesday night (Leverett, 51-46, OT). Quite clearly, the two best house teams of recent years did battle, leaving one somewhat mystified as to where the reporter dug his "It was not supposed to be such a close game" scoop...
...father could have "followed the fruit," and worked year round, but instead stayed in Gilroy, working 12 hour days nine months of the year, so his children could attend school. Guizar's father never went to school, and his mother had only a fifth-grade education. "For us to gain the education they never had, that was very important to them," Guizar says...
...pull together the party's liberals before his next major outings on April 6 in New York and Wisconsin. Thus for the moment the candidates were still hoping to win the fight on points by picking up enough delegates in the party's caucuses and primaries to gain an overwhelming advantage at the convention in July...
...months he was in power, he concentrated on building up the long-neglected countryside by increasing rice and sugar price supports, requiring banks to invest in local agrarian projects and pumping $300 million in direct grants into rural subdistricts. Looking toward the elections next month, he hopes to gain enough new seats for his Social Action Party so that he will be able to create a stable and effective governing coalition...