Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good spirits, Duehay rebuttedTriantafillou's comments, and declared that hewasn't acting for "personal gain" and pointed outthat he didn't lie to Triantafillou...
Business Bytes The Dow ignored Big Bad Bill and a new Japan crisis to gain more than 100 Tuesday. Meanwhile, Bill Gates says Windows 98 is on track, and Boeing reports its first loss in 50 years. Get the numbers, anytime, by index or stock-by-stock
...good news is that this is changing; disclosure has become a popular mantra. The corporate scandals have given rise to a slew of shareholders' lawsuits. In 1994 Toshiaki Takahashi formed a national group of "citizens' ombudsmen" to combat corruption and gain access to the government's books. His organization has brought down officials for everything from construction-bid rigging to faking expense receipts. "The need for public disclosure has finally begun to disseminate," said Takahashi in a recent speech...
...magazine began to gain a foothold the following year. Students now referred to the magazine as "F.M." Molly B. Confer '94, magazine editor, characterizes Fifteen Minutes in 1993 as "something between The Crimson and the Lampoon." That April, the magazine interviewed...
With renewed popularity, Fifteen Minutes started to gain strength and independence from the daily paper. By 1994, the magazine had its own board and its own comp...