Word: gained
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...Memorable not for Nixon's indiscretions, but for its respect for the higher calling of public service, it was a lesson Schlesinger built his life in the public sphere around--the public good always comes before personal gain...
...five years after the bill's passage, nine million veterans would use it to gain more education--and Harvard was no exception...
...graduate-school route seems too time consuming or expensive, you may be able to gain credentials by participating in a one- or two-year alternative program, available in 40 states--and well developed in about a dozen, including California, Illinois, Kentucky, New Jersey, New Mexico and Texas. Some 125,000 new teachers have been certified this way--24,000 of them just in the past two years...
...Israel's hasty retreat left a lot of weapons in the hands of local militants who're not necessarily under Hezbollah's (or any body else's) discipline. A rogue attack emanating from these elements or from some of Lebanon's 400,000 Palestinian refugees who stand to gain little from the Israeli-Palestinian peace process could trigger a massive Israeli response and draw either or both of Hezbollah and Syria into a full-blown war. While plans to get the U.N. to police the border represent a short-term solution, in the end stabilizing its Lebanon border may still...
...nearly three years after discussions began, the Knafel project is bogged down in a struggle to gain approval from a city board...