Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What manner of man becomes a Secret Service agent? The job requires an inordinate amount of risk and dedication; the hours are dreadful; the pay ?soon to be $22,000 on the average ?not extraordinary. Nor can an agent gain any glamour by discussing his work: it is, quite plainly, secret. The allure is there, however. There are always more applicants than jobs, and the Service's annual turnover rate is a remarkably...
Timilty did gain a psychological victory over White, surprising even some of his own supporters with his unexpectedly strong showing. White's organization had hoped to pick up 60 per cent of the vote and possibly even carry every ward in the city. These expectations were reinforced by a pre-election poll conducted by The Boston Globe, which predicted that White's margin of victory would...
...unspectacular, partially sunken concrete pile. Our $3 tickets put us in the sparsely populated third deck, high above the action. At those prices few kangaroos go to A's games. Nor do many Bay Area residents either, since the three-time defending World Champion A's annually struggle to gain one million fans...
...cooperation it is supposed to have fostered. The Administration, in fact, deserves much of the credit for the improved mood at the U.N. The lengthy proposals offered by the U.S. on the special session's opening day convinced many Third World moderates that they may have more to gain from quiet, pragmatic negotiating than from inflammatory rhetoric...
Free Decals. There are also, of course, Bicentennial promotions run by companies that figure to gain nothing more than good will. Philadelphia's Olney Federal Savings & Loan is running a series of ads honoring Revolutionary women. Chase Manhattan Bank has put up $100,000 to help finance an exhibit called "200 Years of American Sculpture" that will open at New York's Whitney Museum next March. IBM has offered $500,000 to help pay for a multimedia exhibit, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," that is now touring Europe. But these projects are vastly outnumbered by the kind...