Word: gainful
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Opponents of the change—including Sarah A. Flanagan, vice president for governmental relations at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities—argue that any gain from more accurate data would be minimal. “Do [policymakers] really need to know why Johnny Jones transferred from Institution A to Institution B?” asked Flanagan. “We already have a pretty good idea of what’s going on in American higher education. We don’t think it’s worth the trade-off in student privacy...
Jack P. McCambridge ’06, who served on the council for two years, says that experience is the only way to gain the trust of the administration and push initiatives through...
...product of frequent liaisons that continued until she forced a breakup this summer. Blunkett apparently managed to have hair samples collected from the 2-year-old's brush to confirm his paternity through private DNA testing. He was in court last week as part of his attempt to gain paternal access rights...
...would-be presidents look to the internet to gather votes, campus bands like Chester French have created groups to keep fans informed and gain new ones...
...mean to suggest that there’s anything inherently wrong with exchanging gifts at Christmastime—it’s a tradition that can’t be argued with. However, when corporations exploit what was once, believe it or not, a religious tradition for financial gain, marketing the idea of a holiday and the traditions that accompany it and using their advertising to turn the exchange of gifts into an obligation rather than a gesture of love or friendship, they detract from the holiday and from the spirit of the season. It’s enough...