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Word: gain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Before this weekend's race, we'd rowed together twice with our lineup," she said. "Usually we gain a lot of speed over the course of the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seesaw Weekend for W. Crew; Heavyweights Fall to Brown, Lightweights Vanquish UMass | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Like most Hollywood productions, this is high-level illusion. Geffen, who is gay, lobbied the President to lift the ban on homosexuals in the military. Geffen stands to gain from the crackdown on the Chinese black market in American videos and CDs that his friend Mickey Kantor, the U.S. Trade Representative, negotiated last year. At 53, Geffen loves to talk economic and budgetary policy, and has a personal and professional interest in the culture wars. As a movie producer, he counts on Clinton to keep the morality-in-media debate focused on industry self-regulation. Above all, however, Geffen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PARTY BOSSES | 4/8/1996 | See Source »

Those affiliated with Phillips Brooks House say that the University has had an anti-union perspective in their attempts over the last three years to gain control over the direction of public service at Harvard...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, | Title: Kidd Accused Of Betrayal | 4/5/1996 | See Source »

...effort to gain power over these, even if it is only mental, athletes often adopt superstitions...

Author: By Joseph W. Lind, | Title: No Football Without Scrod | 4/5/1996 | See Source »

...order to gain admission to the house, young men had an interview with the master where they discussed their academic and extracurricular interests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot | 4/2/1996 | See Source »

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