Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English rebounded the very next time around to gain possession of the Walker Cup for the first time at St. Andrews in 1938. The Cup was received amidst general exhiliaration to the lusty strains of "A Wee Deoch and Doris...
Northwest was a last-minute starter in the competition. Ironically, Northwest had been a division of El Paso until 1974, when the Justice Department forced El Paso to divest itself of Northwest, and McMillian managed to gain control. Two years later, McMillian entered the pipeline race, and he learned fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian...
Jimmy Carter's warm embrace of the embattled Bert Lance is not quite comparable. No one has accused Lance of abusing his current post for personal gain. It is his past conduct as a freewheeling money man that is at issue. But the fact remains that Carter has carried his loyalty to the point where his own image is in danger of being tarnished...
...another house at inflated prices. But they do get a big break; profit on the sale of a house is not taxed at all if it is reinvested in another home within a year. Even if the profit is pocketed, it usually is regarded as a capital gain and only half of it is taxed. Thus buying a house in most cases really is a sound way to build equity and generally more economical than paying rent...
That is the situation in the opening pages of a new novel published in France last week. Titled The 180 Days of Mitterrand, the book probes what will happen if the Socialist and Communist parties gain power in next March's parliamentary elections - which is entirely possible. The work of a so far anonymous author, Days is an instant hit: its first printing of 50,000 copies sold out in a day. The novel says the book editor of the French newsmagazine L 'Express, is "a marvelous projection of the present that always remains on the edge...