Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gain the charter, the founding group had to prove the school would offer something the Cambridge public schools did not--so they went with a math and science focus...
...gain domestic acceptance and international legitimacy for continued military rule, Musharraf has announced an agenda for "good governance" which includes reviving the economy, ensuring financial and political accountability, depoliticizing state institutions, providing justice, rebuilding national cohesion and strengthening the federation through the devolution of power...
...stock picker, Buffett has taken Berkshire's shareholders for an amazing ride, largely on the backs of stocks like Gillette, Coca-Cola and Disney. If you had put $10,000 in Berkshire when Buffett bought control in 1965, it would be worth $51 million today--literally 100 times the gain of the Standard & Poor's 500. Buffett's investment success has long overwhelmed Berkshire's other side, which owns and operates companies in aviation, furniture, insurance and fast food. Profits from those businesses traditionally haven't helped in evaluating Berkshire because investment gains have meant so much more...
...trial separations don't work because they're not 'authentic'--they're just one person's way of getting out of the relationship," says Harriet Lerner, author of The Dance of Anger. But a separation can give couples time to calm down, renegotiate the rules of the relationship and gain some needed distance...
...just his anti-Washington bravado that accounts for McCain's gain in a state of proudly ornery voters. The former Navy pilot and prisoner of war has also tried to win the ground game by visiting the state 28 times since he started running and presiding at 80 town hall meetings. What's more, he has plans to milk the success of his autobiography, which has remained on the best seller list since its release a month ago. At the end of October, sources tell TIME, McCain will launch television ads in New Hampshire that recapitulate his war story. "Courage...