Word: gained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Women from Boston and its surrounding communities will soon gain easier access to health care and health education from hospitals affiliated with Harvard Medical School...
...able to deal with the senior leaders of different countries [and to gain] an understanding of the direction" that technology is taking, Shepherd said...
...found at Final Clubs are there in order to amuse the members is degrading to the women who choose to go to them. Implying that women pay some sort of "fee" by entering a final club conjures up the disturbing (and unrealistic) image that women are prostituting themselves to gain access to these exclusive clubs...
...midst of her remembrance, Ann recalls a last conversation with Harris, while we also gain glimpses of her children, anxiously waiting at her bedside as her death draws near. There is nothing new about the intervening years between Ann's encounter with Harris and the time of her illness; she marries three times, has children and deals with her husbands one by one as they betray her or die or simply leave...
...this was probably exactly what Bartoli wanted. By allowing Hoelterhoff access to the backstage of the opera world, Bartoli had the right to read everything in the book and to have some control over how she was portrayed. Because of this, Hoelterhoff only briefly mentions Bartoli's gradual weight gain and only paints a few unflattering portraits of the pasta-eating mezzo. This is not to say that Hoelterhoff pulled any punches with Bartoli's colleagues. Hoelterhoff seems obsessed with the gargantuan proportions of some of today's most well-known sopranos...