Word: gain
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...Lonergan's nagging shin splints came back again, and he wasn't able to start training in time to make the cross country season. Carswell, the captain-elect last spring, tried to gain a spot on the Canadian Olympic team in the first half of the summer, over the time that NCAA runners usually rest...
...think young people will be an integral part of this election," said Patrick J. Ellis, director of legislation for the College Democrats. "I think every election year young people gain a better footing in the process...
Morris: The State of the Union last January was the most important event in the past two years in moving him up in the polls. It was my idea that giving a second such speech this year would produce an equivalent gain. The main work was getting approval for each of the 30 or so initiatives he would propose. We had been collecting ideas for months, polling them and vetting them. We announced some on a daily basis and put some in a piggy bank to save for the convention speech. The bureaucracy opposed a lot of them, but [presidential...
Christian conservatives, on the other hand, are unalterably committed to vouchers as the best way to gain control over what their children learn. But until the day that vouchers can subsidize religious academies and home schooling, the Christian Coalition will be very active on local school boards, where it often faces off against the teachers' unions on curriculum and rules. Training materials for a seminar the Coalition ran last year in Atlanta state that the "strategy must be to weaken the teacher unions financially. Any success in achieving this objective will facilitate virtually all conservative objectives, educational and noneducational...
...ANGELES: Gain a star center, lose a soft-drink sponsor. That was the trade the Los Angeles Lakers made in signing Shaquille O'Neal. Since O'Neal is a spokesman for Pepsi in his spare time, Coca-Cola has decided to end its five-year sponsorship of the Lakers, since in the Atlanta firm's view, O'Neal represents the fox in the Coke chicken coop. "There was nothing to prevent Shaq from pulling out a Pepsi in the locker room during an on-camera interview," said a Coca-Cola spokesman. In fact, that's almost what O'Neal...