Word: gain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true now as it was 30 years ago. While the overtly racist tenets of conservatism have largely been forced out of political discourse, they have frequently been replaced by covert race-baiting and what Senator Patrick Moynihan (DNY) has termed "benign neglect." And overt racism is beginning to gain more and more legitimacy, as neoconservatism encourages "angry white men" to search for scapegoats...
...software industry's master strategist-or at least it seemed so at the time. When Bill Gates announced last October that Microsoft would buy Intuit -- maker of the popular "electronic-checkbook" program Quicken -- it looked as if the software giant would not only eliminate a meddlesome competitor but also gain an instant beachhead in the fast-growing field of electronic commerce. There were grumblings, of course, about antitrust, but hardly anyone seemed to think they would lead anywhere. After all, the Department of Justice's antitrust division had just wrapped up a four-year federal investigation of Microsoft by negotiating...
Halkias said that although she hopes women will gain some voice in legislation on dimografiko in the near future, this is unlikely...
...central conceit here is that Romeo and Juliet are both just horny, whiny teenagers, and that Romeo is actually gay. Thus both lovers fall for Constance, thinking her to be a boy, and both cross-dress to gain her attention, leading to gems such as: "Doth no one in Verona sail straight...
Scrums are called, for instance, when a penalty is called on one team for say, hitting the ball forward with a player's hand. The other team can then put the ball in the scrum, and that team is more likely to gain possession...