Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the budget for arms-buying set tentatively at $2.3 billion in the next three years, the Germans also expect to gain much political influence through the judicious placing of orders-and other countries are already scrambling for them. The British are trying hard to get the Germans to buy Centurion tanks instead of U.S. M-475. The Turks and Italians are competing for ammunition orders. But the biggest purchases will be in the U.S. Last week a mission headed by Dr. Fritz von Twardowski returned from a two-week shopping mission in the U.S. with tentative agreements...
...true Gandhian tradition. Gandhi, who stoutly maintained that his own methods of fasting were "noncoercive," regarded fasting as a form of self-sacrifice and renunciation so extreme that it astounded one's opponents and led them to reconsider their own attitudes. "Fasting for the sake of personal gain is nothing short of intimidation," said Gandhi. "I fasted to reform those who love me ... you cannot fast against a tyrant...
...hostile to private enterprise, oversolicitous of labor and sensitive to individual needs-but sometimes only from a distance and in the mass. The New Republicanism can hold the center for a considerable time; the Democratic Party, since it ranges from ultraradicalism to ultraconservatism, is not structurally set up to gain it. But the Democrats could win the center by nominating a presidential candidate who "took over the formula of the great middle way" at the same time the Republicans nominated an extreme conservative. Writes Larson: "The man who holds the center holds a position of almost unbeatable strength...
...sold in the past three years. Retail sales are running at the rate of $16.6 billion a year, 23% higher than the 1952 level (see The Luxury Market). But savings are also climbing. Individual savings accounts grew fatter by $5 billion in first-quarter 1956, the fastest rate of gain since the Korean war. The gross national product, sum of all goods and services produced in the U.S., was barreling along at the annual rate of $408 billion in June, seems certain to top the $400 billion mark this year for the first time in history. Since June 1952, when...
...Mush-to gain little or no altitude or to lose altitude when the angle of attack would normally indicate a gain...