Word: gain
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Although first-years will be given access to houses, upperclass students will not be able to gain entry to Yard dorms under the new policy...
Observers predict that Reeves will gain much more than the 10 percent of the vote needed to secure a seat on the city council, meaning Reeves' excess votes will be distributed among other candidates...
Although Pilgrim said she may receive some of Reeves' excess votes simply because she is black, she said she does not expect to gain the support of much of the mayor's constituency...
...That sort of thing got us better known on the circuit, and it helped us gain some experience against the veteran club teams," Kim said...
...steroid use and was suspended from competition for four years. You can add to the South African case the names of Ben Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Lyle Alzado and Katrin Krabbe, and the picture only becomes more disturbing. The carelessness of risking one's long-term health for short-term gain and the cunning used to avoid detection are not behaviors to be emulated...