Word: gain
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Then ask yourself what there is to gain...
...certainty that the Core Curriculum would root out those people who abuse the present system. However, I am convinced that the loss in freedom under the Core Curriculum to the majority of students who use the present system properly would far outweigh the gain made for a few other students who would only begrudgingly accept...
Genovese said one of the continuing problems of socialism is to reconcile the need for a socialist party to gain and maintain power with the need to preserve "the historical traditions of freedom and democracy...
...since any attack on inflation would hit at the privileges of specific interest groups, who threaten their fearsome counterattacks at the polls. But perhaps some politicians would be brave enough, and wise enough, to advocate steps that would earn the outrage of specific interests in the short run but gain the support of the inflation-strained majority over the longer haul. Among the steps that, taken together, could cut inflation...
...workers commonly collect more salary and fringes than private workers in comparable jobs, and federal pay is budgeted to increase 6% in the next fiscal year. If Carter succeeded in cutting that back to 5% or less, he would both reduce inflation in the federal payroll and gain moral authority to advocate similar restraint in private wages...