Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final match was a thriller with neither fencer able to gain more than a one-point advantage. And after a double-touch (each fencer getting a point), the contest was even...
...years, Harvard/Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (H/RAAA) has focused on the alumni-elected Board as a means of forcing the University to divest of its $230.9 million South Africa-related holdings. By submitting an independent slate of candidates and winning seats on the 30-member board, H/RAAA members hoped to gain enough support among the overseers to force a vote on Harvard's divestment policy...
Critics have charged that under Harvard admissions policies, Asian-Americans must be academically better qualified to gain admission, and that the University has employed conscious or unconscious bias in limiting the number of Asian-American undergraduates...
Also, according to admissions data, Asian-Americans typically gain higher representation in the early admission pool than in the regular pool. Last year, for example, Asian-Americans made up 17 percent of students admitted early, while they accounted for about 13 percent of the Class of 1992 as a whole...
...gyrating dance techniques. He says, "The only two people who have shown love and respect for James Brown are Little Richard and Al Sharpton," the New York City preacher who stirred up a storm over the purported rape of Tawana Brawley and is now organizing a campaign to gain Brown's early release. Complains Sharpton, who sports a Brown-style hairdo: "The country would never have done this to Elvis...