Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disheartening thing that has happened in the past few months," he says, "is the growing suspicion in Soweto, the black ghetto outside Johannesburg, toward all whites. When I first arrived, a black friend was enough, then a press card, then an American accent. Today it is difficult to gain their trust...
Issues such as these have confronted the roughly 50 delegates to the Harvard convention that has begun the process of writing a charter for a college-wide student government. Whether the government these delegates from--if they form one--will gain sufficient credibility and effectively mobilize student opinion, as the Brown, Yale and Princeton governments have done on occasion, is another question...
...Brien's tally resulted from a two on one break with teammate Ross Brownridge. Harvard's Gene Purdy drilled a slap shot wide of the mark that rebounded to center ice. Sophomore defenseman Jack Hughes pivoted to gain control of the loose puck as Brownridge and O'Brien swarmed on the disk. Brownridge's initial shot was stopped by goalie Hynes before O'Brien, a sophomore, found the open...
...order to gain tax-exempt status PUMA as an organization must refrain from any formal political lobbying efforts. Nevertheless, PUMA members have been involved in lobbying at the State House to decriminalize prostitution, often working through Prostitutes for Legislative Reform. Lewis and Weeks praise some legislators--State Reps. Barney Frank '61, Mel King and Elaine Noble--for being supportive. But their meetings with some other politicians have been frustrating. In one meeting at the State House, the legislature's leading anti-abortion crusader started spouting Biblical injunctions as soon as Lewis explained his purpose. Lewis hates that at least...
...Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...