Word: gained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read it. I sympathize with the occasional little problem that affects the houses as it would affect any college dormitory at any college, and appreciate that it takes clean-up time and money. Forbidding door-delivery of free materials, however, is a drastic and unnecessary step that offers little gain for the houses involved while depriving students of ideas and information and threatening the financial viability of Harvard's advertisement-supported student publications...
...sanction of all would be for the millions of black workers simply to stay at home until the government agrees to negotiate. This does not happen, says a diplomat in Pretoria, because "the primary concern of most blacks in South Africa is money. The secondary concern is possible political gain in the future. There is no revolution in sight...
...gain for the studios is obvious. But what the sponsors hope to achieve is something of a mystery. Procter & Gamble, the company that makes Downy, will spend $8.5 million to advertise The Wizard of Oz tape. Yet, according to two surveys, at least two-thirds, and perhaps as many as nine-tenths, of all viewers push the fast-forward button when they spot...
...ensuing controversy highlighted the struggle between the academic pursuits of this University and its constant search for economic gain. Bok later agreed to consult FAS on future real estate plans, and it was decided last month--after Cambridge citizens complained that the University demolished the station before it could be declared a landmark--that FAS would control the former Gulf Station site...
Should Vail gain approval from the group of outside scholars who will convene this fall to give a final recommendation to Bok, his success could break the promotions barrier...