Word: gained
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...time of his remarks last night, Reeves had emerged to gain a surprising lead in the mayor's race with three votes--three more than he had at the beginning of the evening. Two and a half hours later, however, Galluccio was elected as the successor to former mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 with six votes, putting a dramatic end to the six-week-long competition for the mayoralty...
Anthony Palladino, general manager of retail operations for Riverside Management Group, which operates several Dunkin' Donuts throughout the city, said it took several months to gain the necessary approvals and renovate the site...
...grasp of which candidates possess the set of skills necessary to work with the administration on behalf of students. Despite their flaws, perhaps it makes much more sense to have the council operate like other student organizations, where the members choose their own leaders based on the knowledge they gain by working alongside them all semester...
...saying that people shouldn't date until they're ready to get married. For myself, though, I felt while marriage was out of the question, I could gain more by focusing on friendships rather than on a single girlfriend. Having a girlfriend takes a lot of time, and for me, I felt like the "opportunity costs" of dating someone in high school outweighed the possible returns of a relationship doomed to end after senior prom...
...gotten their neighborhood back. But once the details of the investigation started coming to light, that support quickly ended." While nothing as embarrassing or threatening as a federal investigation into the department has been launched, it seems the LAPD's attempts to forge closer ties with the community and gain credibility are once again at ground zero...