Word: gain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kenneth Ryan, Ladd Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and chairman of that department, said yesterday, "this university has traditionally been the training place for other schools. His research has been distinguished, and Chicago's gain is our loss...
...pastors are mild gamblers, they smoke cigars and drink whiskey now and then, they are concerned with worldly things like income, furniture and football games. Their need for defined relationships is presented as a human one rather than an institutional one, and because of this presentation the stories gain dramatic force. But the offices of the Church are no longer sacrosanct. As a result, the traditional hierarchy has been permanently weakened. Even God is brough down to a mundane level. When the Bishop of Ostergothenburg tries to retrieve his authority, he investigates behind the new bishop's back reports...
...leaves the reader feeling empty and bemused, it's hard to go on to read the next. Powers offers very little hope--the major character of each story slips quietly into resignation, accepting a society that negates faith and community. One of Powers's pastors, who tries hard to gain the acceptance of his curate and his (curate's) friends, holds forth as he feels a true father would. He fails to establish any kind of relationship, but in the course of his attempt he realizes, "All this talk of community, communicating, and so on--it was just whistling...
This year storekeepers are entering their critical period in an optimistic mood. Retailers are predicting an increase in Christmas sales of around 10% over last year. Even discounting the fact that consumer prices are about 7.5% higher than a year ago, that would leave a real gain. Bloomingdale's President Marvin S. Traub says his store could post about a 15% gain over 1974, when the economy was skidding toward the bottom of its worst slump since the 1930s...
...were able to get back into the market and buy desirable merchandise at desirable prices." A further result: inventory problems sank first-quarter 1975 profits of Sears, Roebuck & Co. and J.C. Penney Co. by an average of 74% below the 1974 period, but Federated bobbed up with a 9% gain...