Word: gainful
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...gain "life experience" that Batchelor joined the Army in August 2001, dropping out of the branch of Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. He had spent three years working toward a degree in criminal justice, and now hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
...long frame on a sofa in his London town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden of life after Sept. 11 and how it feels to be sucker-punched by an excitable creep...
...galleries are willing to endure the complicated logistics of procuring artwork from Cuba, explains Holliey White, founder of Arts Amica, an organization dedicated to helping artists gain exposure outside of Cuba. Because of tight security restrictions, artwork is inspected numerous times on its way to the U.S. and must be re-stretched for exhibition—all disincentives for galleries to show Cuban work...
...players to see if they are interested in business and to gain a better and deeper understanding of what it is to be in the business field.” Masonson said...
...hour library constitutes an important first step in University Hall’s commitment to recognizing the dramatically skewed and extended schedules of students on campus. And it is a conversation that will continue with all deliberate speed as the UC and the administration work together to gain greater understanding and accommodation of undergraduate lives...