Word: gain
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...burden, many believe, is to bring youngsters now taught in separate settings into regular classrooms. Under this inclusion approach, the special-education dollars follow the children. At Boston's Patrick O'Hearn Elementary School, for example, 20 of its 66 special-ed. children have significant handicaps that could gain them private placement. Yet they are taught in regular classrooms at great savings to taxpayers...
Rangel, with his familiar raspy voice and diamond-in-the-rough demeanor, has 26 years under his belt as the Harlem Congressman who succeeded Adam Clayton Powell. He has done enough TV to gain national stature, and has the House seniority to be a contender to chair the mighty Ways and Means Committee. Rangel's longstanding priority is bringing education, jobs and job training to his district so that Harlem can again be the flourishing community...
After his re-election in 1994, by only 471 votes, McHale is on everyone's list of vulnerable incumbents. He is, however, better prepared this time--his last challenger outspent him by $100,000--and hopes to gain broad support from his voting record, his reputation as a deficit cutter and his incumbency...
...something very little known. Deeply embedded within House Resolution Four, the welfare reform bill passed this summer, is a stipulation that cuts federal student aid to legal immigrants by grossly inflating their income. Using a device called "alien sponsor deeming," sponsors' assets (which immigrants need in some cases to gain legal entrance to the United States) are added to the immigrant's finances to create an overinflated income. According to the e-mail, projections show that under the welfare bill, $21 million in Pell Grants and $31 million in loans will be lost for legal immigrants in the California university...
...President Agnew and am repelled by his attacks on the press. [But] if millions of people on television see Nixon as he is, and then read a column by a respected journalist like you which appears to be patently biasted [sic] against him, the very dangerous Agnew theme ... will gain much credance...