Word: gained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tuesday, voters got the chance to send Washington their own message. It was two words: Shut up! So the election that was supposed to be another G.O.P. blowout ended with a gain of five House seats for the Democrats, no change in the Senate and the morning-after spectacle of dumbstruck Republicans. They will still rule the next Congress, but with nothing like the headlong confidence they brought there after their triumph in 1994, when they knew in their bones that they were the party with a direct channel to the majority will. What most Americans these days appear...
Each year the club makes a trek to New York City to gain first-hand exposure to the world of finance...
...actually getting to see the traders in their workplace, I was able to gain insight I never would have gotten had I just attended a general on-campus information session," said Jon D. Markham...
...Students gain access to the dormitories through keycards, known as "prox cards" because they must be placed in close proximity of an electronic security device...
...Iraq believes it's in a win-win situation," adds TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Their objective is to get sanctions lifted, and they believe that if there's a diplomatic solution or if they're attacked, they gain either way." So the future of the conflict may now depend less on whether or not Iraq is bombed than on what happens after it's bombed...