Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said that to gain popular support, the government must reform, but the government is caught between a right-wing faction of the leadership and the majority of the Spanish people, who want democracy...
...fencers feel they will be serious Ivy contenders as they gain consistency. Throughout the young season, the squad according to Simmons has been "borderline between doing what we should and eking...
Mixed Results. With that kind of buildup, a letdown was almost inevitable. "Impossible expectations have been raised," Physiological Psychologist Neal Miller of Rockefeller University, a leader in feedback research, told a New York symposium last week. Indeed, actual gains have been modest. Researchers have helped some incontinent patients to gain control of their urination and defecation through biofeedback. Among other researchers, Dr. John Basmajian, a professor of anatomy and rehabilitation medicine at Emory University, reports success in eliminating foot drop - difficulty in raising the foot while walking - though efforts to extend the technique to cerebral palsy victims have failed...
...early November, to 5.2 million, indicating that the November unemployment rate to be announced this week will be down. Many economists now forecast that total output of goods and services, discounted for inflation, will rise at an annual rate of 5% this quarter. That would be a solid gain, though below the 13% leap in the third quarter, when output got a one-shot lift as businessmen who had cleaned out their inventories began filling orders from new production again...
Savige said the CIA's domestic field offices sometimes "enlist the cooperation of American citizens" to gain access to information...