Word: gained
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...academe. Some are learning from videotapes, while others watch satellite lectures. But these methods of distribution are rapidly being overtaken by distance learning via the World Wide Web. Armed with a personal computer, a moderately fast modem, an Internet service provider and a Web browser, students can quickly gain access to all kinds of course material whenever they want. There are about 1,200 degree and certificate distance-learning programs available from about 900 accredited colleges, observes Karen Hansen, executive editor at Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J., education- and career- products publishing company that puts out the annual Peterson...
Should Parker Bowles ever gain the acceptance her friends wish for her, it is still unlikely that she and Charles would wed. The couple, according to royal watchers, has accepted the fact that marriage is not an option. Charles hasn't intimated that he would forfeit the throne to make Camilla his wife. The most they can hope for is a comfortable live-in relationship...
LONDON--President Bill Clinton nominated former Harvard Vice President John F. T. Shattuck as U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic--a role that will become more tightly defined in the next year as the six-year-old country seeks to gain admission to NATO and its government struggles to overcome instability...
...music, driving at a leisurely pace. On Interstate 287, I looked with pity at the other drivers, their tinted windows shut tight, racing to be the first home. They weren't having nearly as much fun as I was. They rushed past me, cutting each other off, fighting to gain even one car length. I thought I knew the secret to a happier existence...
...surprised if Jacques Chirac obliges. The French president has already gotten a 15 percent boost in the polls out of France's progress to the final; presenting the trophy to Les Bleus while wrapped self-consciously in a soccer scarf will no doubt bring Chirac even greater political gain. He shouldn't, therefore, be too worried that crowds are already calling for Zinedine "Zizou" Zidane, the striker who scored two of France's goals, to be elected president. That will be far more troubling to Jean-Marie Le Pen: The fact that a whole nation is cheering...