Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case attempts to cope with one of the more daunting problems posed by those who would make use of the World Wide Web: its enormity and lack of central organization, which combine to make it difficult to gain ready access to information one might wish...
...last week, as a blizzard shut down the government they had just reopened, President Clinton and the Republican leaders of Congress were still saying that it was in America's interest to reach a budget deal, that they weren't very far apart, that they had everything to gain by making peace and much to lose by fighting on, that the markets would shriek if the talks ruptured. And yet there came a moment when they all quietly reached the same conclusion. To varying degrees, they all wanted a deal, they all needed a deal, and without a miracle, they...
...story might have been just another ho-hum item in the trade newspapers, except for a striking fact. One company--and one man--stood to gain more than anyone else from the exercise in U.S. trade pressure. The man is Carl Lindner, 76, a Cincinnati, Ohio, real estate, insurance and banana tycoon who likes to boast of his friendships with U.S. Presidents and sometimes blusters about what his political connections can do for him. For more than two years, Lindner has showered money on some of the biggest names in Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, Lindner...
According to Blais, an official caucus would be subject to council policy against discrimination. The caucus would have to admit male members to gain official recognition...
...withholding of undergraduate grades represented the most drastic step yet by GESO, which has been trying for the past five years to gain recognition as a union. Yale has maintained that the teaching assistants are students, not employees...