Word: gained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money?perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker," a low-ranking track factotum who cools down horses after the run. Then he got thrown from a horse, suffering head and back injuries...
Using the Navy's 150-ft. radio telescope at Sugar Grove, W. Va., Dr. Sadeh will attempt this month to establish the pulse rate of one or more of the pulsars to an accuracy of one part in 10 billion-the equivalent of a clock that would gain or lose only 1/300th of a second per year. Then, twice a month for the next half a year, he will match the rate of incoming pulses against a cesium clock, an atomic timer that is accurate to one part in 10 trillion...
...complaints about poor lighting in plant walkways-that could impede a settlement. But money, says Abel, "is the most important matter"-and the union has some important precedents to lean on. At the very least, it is likely to insist on wage-and-benefit increases approaching the 6% gain won last year by the United Automobile Workers in its settlements with Detroit's Big Three. Larger still is the 6.5% increase that the Steelworkers themselves won two weeks ago in coming to terms on a new contract with the aluminum industry...
...counsel of Crane, had served as manager for 13 years. During the next two years, the council minority led by Crane sniped away at DeGuglielmo's supporters. In last November's election, their efforts were rewarded, two of the City Manager's five votes on the council failed to gain re-election. After that, it was only a matter of time until the axe fell. It fell only ten days after the new council took office. By the end of the month, Public Works Commissioner Ralph J. Dunphy moved into the manager's first floor office in City Hall...
...relevant opinions on a specific proposal, a committee may invite him to testify, but never to remain later and join in a binding vote. The HPC this year succeeded in all its substantive educational proposals before the Faculty Committee on Educational Polity, but it failed in its attempt to gain regular membership...