Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...locality. Each such election is in effect a mini-primary-and each candidate faces the delicate decision of whether or not to enter. A few states, including California, Michigan and Nevada, require a candidate to win only 10% or 5% of the vote, instead of 15%, in order to gain a share of the delegates...
...followed NBC with an hour-long version of As the World Turns. More of the 14 soaps now on the air may soon go to an hour too. This shift in the length of the shows makes the ratings battle particularly fierce, with NBC and CBS juggling schedules to gain an edge...
Risher Jr., who had remarried. The father then went to court to gain custody of Jimmy's nine-year-old brother Richard. Risher's lawyer implored the jury not to make the youngster "a guinea pig in someone else's social experiment...
...agreement to pay hefty unemployment benefits if necessary during all "lost" weeks. The ill will between labor and management that was so prevalent during the latter days of the Rudolf Bing regime at the Met was said to be almost nonexistent this time. That may have been the greatest gain...
Some of the sales gain-perhaps 1%-probably came about because this year there were 23 shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas, or one day more than last year. During early December the weather was unseasonably mild in many parts of the country; that encouraged shopping expeditions, and even snows just before Christmas did not wipe out the benefit. Sales were also boosted by Sunday store openings in various cities-some of them, as in Warwick, R.I., amounting to mass disobedience of local "blue laws...