Word: gain
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...discussed in Congress. The island would be explicitly recognized as a sovereign entity voluntarily choosing union with the U.S. Puerto Ricans would remain U.S. citizens but, unless they live on the mainland, still could not vote for fed eral offices. Most important, Puerto Rico would gain full autonomy in specific areas, perhaps including the setting of minimum wages, environmental controls and tariffs, and regulating immigration. It would be able to import some goods without paying duties...
...hunts, he stood tall before the House Un-American Activities Committee, defied their attempt to limit his constitutional rights, and mocked their pretensions to patriotism. To silence him, the government revoked his passport, branded him a subversive, and in effect forced him to leave the U.S. in order to gain employment. In short, the workings of American democracy were such that an internationally known artist and political activist was turned into an unperson in his own country...
...public opinion would likewise accept such a result. Unlike Vietnam, where "the American people instinctively felt that the national interest was not at stake" (Miles Ignotus), the national gain here would be clear. A surgically-neat military operation would avoid the quagmire syndrome which bogged down the US debacle in Indochina. Thus the world will be saved from economic and political chaos, and US hegemony will be re-established, dissolving once and for all the bitter aftertaste of the defeat in Vietnam...
...Food Service Department--Investigate the cost efficiency gain of a "No seconds policy." Harvard is unique in its present position compared to other universities. Also the recent changes making available optional extras (i.e. onions, raisins, peanut butter, raw carrot sticks, etc.) make a change to no seconds more appropriate than in the past...
...Center Social Democrats, a rightist, free-enterprise party that won only 7% of the vote in last April's elections, confidently expects to become at least the nation's third largest party. The center-left Popular Democrats, although hurt by internal party divisions, are also expected to gain strength in the spring voting, perhaps even outpolling Mario Scares' moderately leftist Socialists, the largest vote getters in last spring's elections. A secret army poll recently leaked to the press predicted a meager 6% vote for Portugal's Communist Party-less than half the 12.5% they...