Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever breaks out in Europe, and the Russians gain ground, we dare not use our nuclear arms," Pipes said, reiterating that the Russians could easily neutralize the U.S. defense...
...million Korean grant in June 1975, it is inexcusable for Harvard to actively support the Shah's regime. The extended agreement, which will last until next summer, brings the total of Harvard's contracts for designing the "New Community" to over $1 million. Harvard has nothing to gain financially from the agreement. The money will simply be used to hire officials in the Harvard planning office, to fund the design work, and to dispatch Hal Goyette, director of the Harvard Planning Office, to Iran to oversee the project...
...employers are in good shape to take a big strike. Since 1970, when some 74% of the nation's coal was mined by U.M.W. members, vast new strip mines in Wyoming and other Western states, where the U.M.W. has been unable to gain a foothold, have come into production. As a result, the union's share of national production has slumped to less than 54%. And industry has ample coal stocks on hand...
...Citizens in Amherst, Mass., have just begun a fight similar to the one Cambridge citizens waged last year to stop construction of P-3 laboratories for DNA research in Cambridge, while scientists at MIT and the University of Southern California at San Francisco surged ahead in an effort to gain time on their fellow scientists who are bogged down by the controversies raging over their work...
...homosexual and make personal decisions concerning those rights. I write in the hope that the future legislators in this school will vote for job rights-gay rights-human rights. I write to encourage those shy or fearful or intimidated gay students here to be homosexual. You can only gain respect. Bryan J. O'Rouke...