Word: gained
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Facing the Kraus plan for reduction infinancial aid for graduate students, therecently-formed Graduate Student Union's 639members opt to strike on Monday, March 19, in aneffort to gain recognition as the solerepresentative body for graduate students atHarvard...
Selection for the team has enabled players who later turn professional to gain prestige needed for endorsement deals, Majmudar said, adding that he is considering playing tennis professionally after graduation...
...Microsoft's May 15 deadline for giving its new operating system, Windows 98, to PC manufacturers. DOJ antitrust chief Joel Klein believed that the ways Microsoft uses its Windows monopoly to dominate other markets violate antitrust law, and that the company had to be reined in lest it gain a choke hold on the Internet. Gates felt otherwise, and had long since made it clear that he would rather fight than switch business models...
...door," says Weir. "He's someone who was brought up by wolves and lived in a nest of liars. The people around him were ambitious actors, and all his life they were leaning in very close to him. There was a lot of grinning by overfriendly people trying to gain his influence. Thus he has a very public persona, an exaggerated external self." The director could be describing the Jim Carrey who in 1994 had emerged from supporting status into the heat of celebrity and sycophancy. Weir also detected "something alien about Jim, an 'otherness' that worked...
...keep custody of their offspring, the couple turned the baby over to relatives. Army officers say it's likely the couple will re-wed in December, when the woman--whose graduation was delayed by her pregnancy--is due to graduate. At that time, the couple will probably gain custody of the child and complete their five years of obligated military service. The father, a highly regarded cadet, is expected to head to graduate school. "It is a difficult moral and ethical proposition to square," sighs Christman. "But life is filled with a lot of complicated moral and ethical issues...