Word: gain
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...Crimson contains a story on Melanie Thernstrom's book about the Dunster House murder-suicide, Halfway Heaven. In passing, the article repeats a charge made in a much earlier Crimson article, to the effect that as a reporter Thernstrom used her position as a (former) Harvard instructor to gain access to confidential information...
...this the full extent of the exploitation of political prisoners. As the famed dissident Harry Wu has noted, the Chinese regime is so gain-hungry (as Deng Xiaoping's famous slogan runs, "It is glorious to get rich") that it ekes profit out of political prisoners even after their death. The sale of organs of executed prisoners to foreigners willing to put up cash for a quick transplant is an approved practice in China. In life as in death, Chinese citizens are treated as government chattel...
DONUT COLOGNE $6.95 for 2.5 oz. Inspired by the natural cologne of a policeman, fire fighters Craig Freeman and Bobby Alamillo decided to capture "the aroma of doughnuts--without the fat." They've sold 12,000 bottles since 1996, all with no reported weight gain...
WEIGHTY MATTERS Women who gain more than 10 lbs. in the years before conceiving double their odds of developing diabetes in pregnancy. It usually disappears after childbirth, but chances are strong that it will recur later...
...ravages of time. He was re-elected in part because he complied. He looks improbably young. His hair may be gray, but it's all there. He runs without gasping for air, and he's managed to lose 20 lbs. when it's all too easy to gain twice that...