Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plumbing. The signatures were scarcely dry before the West's capitals resounded with the confused sound of pundits trying to assess loss or gain. But the Moscow meeting was not the kind that produces the means of any immediate measurement. An exchange of diplomatic relations represents in itself just a bit of plumbing, its value to be determined by what flows through it. The effect of the prisoners' release will depend first on whether they get home, and perhaps to a great extent on the stories they tell of others who died or remain behind. The conference...
...United States," said the letter, "whatever our protestations of superior virtue . . . have inherited in great measure the fears and resentments of Asia toward the West . . . We can make a case for the very mixed benefits of empire and of economic penetration motivated by the desire for gain. Before God and men, we can make no case for contempt and assumptions of racial superiority. These are the deepest roots of our alienation from Asia. For these there is no answer but repentance...
When striving to gain independence from England, the founders of the U.S. were also considered by their European progenitors to be an "outlawed, audacious nationalistic group" . . . Irish nationalism, confined as it is to a desire for the unification of Ireland, is preferable to the odiousness of English colonialism...
...time of rising interest rates. Moreover, many who talk about mergers as though they were the exclusive and sinister technique of the financial titans disregard the fact that most of the mergers have been between small banks. By joining forces, they can hold their own and even gain against big-city institutions. For example, the First National Bank of Merrick, L.I. was a puny $11 million institution when it began the first of a series of eleven mergers six years ago. Today, renamed the Meadow Brook National Bank, it has assets of about $250 million, and offers, through...
...Gains on the Rails. The summer of prosperity meant that Americans could and did enjoy themselves. Resorts were packed with vacationers. At home they snapped up more airconditioners, bought more motorboats, spent more money fixing up homes and lawns and gardens. In mid-August the nation's department stores showed a 6% sales gain over the comparable week for 1954. In fact, spending was so free that a cloud of inflation loomed on the horizon. Farm equipment prices moved up (an average, 6% for Ford Motor Co., 7% for Caterpillar Tractor Co. and Deere & Co.); building materials, coal, work...