Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than that, it is gaining confidence to know yourself and to be true to yourself in decision-making situations that is an invaluable first-year experience, one that is ultimately more important than what you gain from any of the films you see in a first-year seminar...
...venture must also win congressional approval before it can proceed, since antitrust law generally prohibits joint manufacturing ventures between major competitors. But experts predict that Congress will make an exception for U.S. Memories. Besides the potential gain in chips, they contend, the lessons learned from the DRAM joint venture could show American industry how to become more competitive in other high-tech areas, including high-definition television...
Gorbachev views the reconciliation as a way to gain Iran's restraint in exporting its brand of religious fundamentalism to the Soviet Union's Islamic republics. Rafsanjani said the two sides had agreed on a policy of noninterference in each other's affairs, but then implied that Moscow could do more for its Muslim population. Said he: "Mr. Gorbachev has a long way to go in terms of providing people freedoms." Nevertheless, Rafsanjani apparently liked what he saw: he added two stops to his itinerary -- Leningrad and Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, a republic on the doorstep of Iran with...
...Batman doesn't really do anything with the idea. There is no moment of revelation; Batman's external battle with the Joker does not seem to have a parallel within himself. He doesn't learn anything or gain any control over himself. He simply defeats this film's embodiment of evil. So what if Batman and the Joker are complementary psychotics? Why the Joker, and not Darth Vader or Lex Luthor? In the end, Batman is nothing more than a clever comic-book idea that just doesn't go anywhere...
...long-term owner than cashed out of one of the world's most exciting companies at $175 a share." Concurred Kendrick Noble, who follows media companies for the Paine Webber investment firm: "After all the smoke blows away and we can look at the facts, Time's | shareholders should gain from this. The new company will produce higher income over the longer term...