Word: gain
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...relevant to the community. We really believe it will sell,” Scheirer said. The Harvard Book Store set up a display in its storefront as well as inside the shop using photos from the book. Cambridge-centered displays are typically geared toward tourists, said Heather L. Gain, Harvard Book Store’s marketing manager. But Gain said she believes the display will attract Cambridge residents as well. Lotman, who was raised outside Philadelphia, fell in love with Boston when he visited as a 13 year old, he said. He moved to Cambridge in the early 1990s...
...very mediagenic: "Observe the world around you - everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do - solve a real problem, and the world is yours," he told a blogger earlier this year. The site won a lot of awards from the media, which helped it gain the credibility it needed to get people to hand over their financial data. You don't get from zero dollars to $170 million in market value in three years without knowing a thing or two about money...
...Muffins can make me gain 1 to 2 kg overnight, even if I increase my exercise trying to melt them off. But last January I caught the flu, which made me lose my appetite. In four days I lost 2 kg with no exercise at all. Lia Zampedri, Brescia, Italy...
...their credit-card-bill strategy. Some observers see Dodd and the Administration working to craft a bill close enough to Shelby's liking so that even if it gets rammed through the committee with Democratic base-pleasing measures he won't vote for, the bill can be reworked to gain his support on the Senate floor. That would give Dodd the political cover he needs for his 2010 re-election campaign, but would also give the Administration the Republican support they need for a solid legislative win. And it would give Shelby his landmark piece of legislation...
...security services as the population looked on indifferently. By invading Iraq, the Bush Administration probably did a far more effective job than bin Laden of weakening U.S. influence in the Muslim world and rallying its youth to resistance. Yet even in Iraq, al-Qaeda's efforts to gain control of the resistance failed because its ideology and tactics were so loathsome to even the bulk of the Sunni insurgents fighting the Americans that they eventually made common cause with the U.S. against the jihadists...