Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ballooned to $1.1 billion. His method was simple: whenever he lost money as a government-bond trader, Iguchi allegedly plucked and sold bonds from Daiwa's own accounts or those of its customers, and then forged documents to make the trades look like authorized transactions. He seemingly sought no gain for himself other than to conceal his losses...
...hand, Chung called for building upon a series of smaller successes to gain a slowly growing base of support from both students and administrators...
...opposing view, which Cheng said she advocated, proposed that the council gain power and influence in a much shorter period of time...
...gain weight over the holidays, and you can't lose...
...mentality of abstinence demands a certain elementary moral metaphysics. Teach this: the more you indulge in anything, good or bad, but especially bad--in drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which...