Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wilson, who has participated in the Radcliffe Mentor Program as a mentor for several years, says structured programs make it easier for both students and senior mentor partners to define their relationship in order for the student to gain maximum benefit...
...stock market was having Solly and all the other big swinging brokerage houses for lunch, plunging a record 554 points in one nauseating session. The next day, Turnaround Tuesday, Salomon's traders, and everyone else, were too busy making money to have lunch, as the Dow reared up to gain back 337 points of that loss...
...such a panic could occur for no good reason and without consequence. We're way beyond normal price volatility here. Throughout history, daily Dow moves of 1% or 2% up or down have been relatively common. But Monday's 7% decline was the 12th worst ever; Tuesday's 4.7% gain, the best in a decade. Was the market right on Monday or on Tuesday...
...words to Solidarity Forever were there in the program, and the audience sang all four verses lustily, including, "They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn./ But without our brain and muscle, not a single wheel can turn./ We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom, when we learn/ That the union makes us strong...
That season, Harvard failed to gain the home-ice advantage for the quarterfinal round of the ECAC Tournament. Thus, the Crimson was headed for St. Lawrence the following weekend...