Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...financier's boldest takeover attempt was his 1954 assault on Montgomery Ward. He spent $500,000 soliciting proxies, and barnstormed the country to line up nearly a third of the mailorder firm's voting stock, but ultimately failed to gain control. So he went after a slightly smaller target: American Motors. Wolfson had bought $4 million of AMC stock before Chairman George Romney talked him out of a takeover and converted him " into a messianic promoter of the Rambler. Wolfson would talk up the little car to barbers, taxi drivers, anyone he encountered, even offering to finance their...
...past twelve months the economy has created more new jobs for adult women (2 million) than for men (1.6 million). Black unemployment has stayed high because of a flood of new job-seekers, but the number of employed blacks last month rose 7.2% above a year earlier, vs. a gain of 4.1% in employment of whites. The number of blacks at work jumped from 9.7 million to 10.4 million...
...Shadrin was approached by KGB operatives. At the request of American officials, he signed up as a Soviet agent and began feeding his KGB spymasters FBI-supplied information about U.S. intelligence methods, much of it harmless but true to gain the KGB's confidence, and some of it false and misleading...
...satisfied with regaining lost prerogatives in academics, the Faculty/administration is attempting to gain greater control over student life. Little things, like the periodic housing transfer freezes, are constant irritants...
Another young American is in the room, who understands what that song means to our generation, looks at me with a haunted expression on his face. It is a sort of Vietnam deja-vu, combined with the horrors of our own decade of ten years later.... In order to gain the reader's sympathies, Feldstein has desperately associated his emotional reflections toward this war situation with the markedly different nature of suffering inflicted by the Nazi Germans and North Vietnamese within very contrasting circumstances...