Word: gainful
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...great thing that will make enormous progress for astronomy," says Professor Emeritus Fred L. Whipple, former director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CFA). The ST would gain the additional range because its view would be free of obscuring, human-produced light and atmospheric pollution, Whipple said...
Sheinberg says that the volunteers are optimistic, and hope that SafeStreets will gain popularity by next year. "I have a great time doing it and the loss of sleep really doesn't bother me," Sheinberg says. "I stay up late to do problem sets on Thursday nights anyway...
...Interior Department favor opening up the area to exploration and development. Unlike Bristol Bay, where powerful fishing interests have always fought drilling, the land adjacent to this preserve is home only to a handful of Inupiat. Alaskan politicians thus have had little to lose and much to gain by pushing for exploration -- even the usually pro-environment Governor Cowper, who favors the plan...
SWAPO is still expected to win a majority in next November's elections. But to gain complete control over the assembly that will write Namibia's new constitution, a party must capture two-thirds of the total vote, and there is considerable doubt that SWAPO can do that. It will face at least six opponents, the strongest being the moderate Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a mixed-race consortium of ethnically based parties with considerable appeal to Namibia's 80,000 whites. Says Alliance Chairman Dirk Mudge, a white former Finance Minister: "It won't be a SWAPO landslide, believe me." Last...
...While the city is actively lobbying at the state level to gain support for the restoration of these funds, I am not optimistic about our chances for success," Healy wrote...