Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity's forechecking was something less than energetic, and the defense unusually careless about permitting Colby men to gain position around the cage, but credit must be given to the hustling team from Maine...
...contrast with patients who had real heart disease but often denied any pain, the neurotics persistently described the most severe symptoms. They identified themselves with genuine heart-disease victims ranging from relatives to President Eisenhower. They also showed "a high degree of secondary gain"-profiting from their imagined ailments, they got warm family sympathy and financial help, which released them from pressures and responsibility...
...Ohio State (6-1-2)-avoided the forward pass as though it were poison, used a crunching ground game that ate up yardage in small but steady chunks to gain third place...
...lines will exchange 400,000 shares of stock, and Pan Am will get a two-year option to buy another 250,000 shares of National stock at $22.50 per share. The effect would be to give National a minor (6%) interest in Pan American, while Pan Am could gain 36% of National if it exercises its option...
What further bothers market specialists about the tax is that it prevents people from being guided by what they really think is a good investment, tends to make the market a less realistic mirror of business conditions. "With capital gains," says Walter Maynard, senior partner of Shearson, Hammill & Co., "you are betting the certainty of a 25% loss v. a problematical gain. And with that certainty of a loss, investors will refrain from making a sale even while admitting that the price of a security is high enough for them...