Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pennies a minute, claim the surcharge is the only way they can keep their rates competitive. But the FCC argues that in exchange for picking up the tab to wire these institutions, it has lowered other fees the long-distance companies pay. The commission also says carriers stand to gain part of the business generated from this new market...
...main argument Talbott used on Sharif was that he should "gain the moral high ground" by showing restraint. Pakistan's historical reliance on military rule has stood poorly in the international arena against India's freewheeling democracy, and this gives Islamabad a rare chance to show itself as the more mature, responsible power. But Pakistan's position is decidedly difficult. Islamabad considers India's tests a provocative act. It is already straining to compete in conventional military power. The populace and opposition politicians are clamoring to even the score. For Pakistan to refrain would be a humiliating retreat from...
...anyone gain a deeper understanding of themselves or have more freedom in their lives unless you have confidentiality and they know that they will have control over what goes out of my office?" Bursztajn said of his psychiatric patients. "If you don't have confidentiality, then you really are asking people to begin to systematically keep from physicians the information the [doctors] need to know...
...Kennedy said Bliley's letter was "obviouslymotivated by a desire to gain partisan politicaladvantage...
...Garrett, who buys and sells stock while shaving, has painfully discovered. Garrett, professor of engineering at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, bought computer maker Unisys for $5 a share some time ago, only to dump it a few months later when it failed to show a quick gain. "If I didn't have easy access [to trading] maybe I wouldn't have jumped so fast," Garrett says of his sale of Unisys, which closed last week at $23 a share...