Word: gainful
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...Amin Gemayel: The people rose up. It is like with (former Romanian dictator Nicolae) Ceausescu. There is a feeling of being fed up. People feel, ?Let us die but keep the country alive.? You gain courage and determination because you have nothing to lose anymore. Syria used the logic of ?divide and rule? with success for a very long time. They were very active in promoting the division and inciting people to fight each other and keep the country in permanent conflict with itself. But now, this policy is over. It doesn't work anymore...
Venture capital firms, on the other hand, partner with a start-up to raise multi-million dollar sums in order to expand the company toward the goal of going public. In return for their help, the firms usually gain the power to hire new executives and push for maximized profit by changing business strategies...
African Americans must explore alternatives to the current two-party system if they hope to gain more political clout, Climenko Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree said last night...
...Hanks will gain 750 pounds to play the title role, and Nicole Kidman will put on a prosthetic face resembling the one she had in the late 1980s to play his professor girlfriend. I will make a stab at winning a Visual Effects Oscar for a jaw-dropping sequence in which war machines from Pluto attack Holyoke Center. This sequence will have nothing to do with the rest of the film...
...performance space…but it’s quite frustrating that Harvard generally does not recognize the potential for academic work in theater, unlike some of the other arts. It’s wonderful that I’ve been able to build a special concentration and gain academic validity in the eyes of the school for the work I do, but nevertheless that line still separates the performing arts from the plastic arts and film—this can be incredibly frustrating and taxing...