Word: gainful
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...Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs at the facilities on Rumsfeld's hit list, while three Southern states, Georgia, Alabama and Texas, will have a net gain of 16,237 jobs...
...French are ahead of us in one important way: they have launched an ambitious state-sponsored effort to head off weight gain before it reaches American proportions. Le Guen is backing several bills in the National Assembly that would regulate diet and exercise nationwide. Starting this fall, vending machines will be banned from all public schools and universities. Ten cities have adopted a school curriculum, based on eating well and in moderation, developed in Fleurbaix Laventie, a small town near the Belgian border. There, kids are taught to choose vegetables and fresh foods over fried and processed ones. From...
Both crews tried to gain ground with moves after the 1,000-meter mark, though neither could substantially alter the margin. As the boats became visible to the spectators with 750 meters remaining, the Crimson maintained a six-seat advantage over the Tigers...
...Crimson, as it has done all season, erased a sizeable deficit off of the start by the 1,200-meter mark. Harvard inched back with a strong move against Cornell and came up even with the Big Red, using the push to gain precious ground on a confident Yale crew. Navy, which entered the race as the country’s No. 2 crew, sat within three or four seats of third-place Cornell...
...soften Ariel Sharon's image. "He's a warrior. He's quite fat, and when he walks, he stomps along," Adler, an advertising executive, recalls thinking. "We had to give him some feminine appeal." Sharon, Adler calculated, was too far to the right on the political spectrum to gain broad support. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 representing the extreme left wing and 5 the far right, Adler figured, Sharon was a 4.7. The winner of every previous election had been a little right of center, Adler judged--somewhere from 2.6 to 3.2. If Sharon wanted...