Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the bare-knuckled opponents, of course, are less interested in the facts than in the fight; indeed, they welcome it. Much of the political right sees in the Panama Canal the ideal issue to rally the troops, gain recruits and make a political comeback. Conservative-financed literature is popping up everywhere, and members of Congress concede they are influenced by the torrent of anti-treaty mail because there is so little on the other side; The treaty, like many worthy foreign policy enterprises, lacks an organized constituency. Nevertheless, the canal issue is fraught with risk for conservatives...
...clearly dismayed at the emergence of an agreement which may prove satisfactory to most Latin American opinion, ranging from the center left to the center right." If the Senate were to reject the pact, the Latin left would be able to say, "We told you so," and would probably gain adherents among disillusioned moderates. No right-winger in the U.S. is more fervent in his desire to see the treaty fail than is the Latin American left...
...Qoboza has relentlessly attacked racism, the apartheid laws, economic and educational discrimination, abuses of power by the police, the government and its ministers -anything and everything South African that adversely affects the lives of his black readers. The messages that Qoboza has driven home most persistently: blacks must inevitably gain a share in power, and they must find common ground with whites before it is too late. There is a bite to Qoboza's warnings, and sometimes sarcasm. But the voice that the government has silenced as subversive spoke out in sorrow as often as in anger. Excerpts from...
...Easy Rider and Joe aroused serious doubts as to the future of the big budget, big studio-backed movie. Such doubts have long since faded away as the motion picture industry has reverted to its conventional production methods, and work like Short Eyes must once again swim upstream to gain widespread attention. A sleeper must now feature something special to succeed, and Young's new film regrettably comes up short in enough areas to safely predict it will not make much of a dent in the industry, artistically or financially...
From an election-season point of view, Boston city councilors have everything to gain by supporting a resolution that asserts, somewhat ungrammatically, "The spiralling property, tax rate of the City of Boston puts undue hardship on city taxpayers, compounding their payments to the city by their indirect subsidization of tax-exempt institutions...