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  • NEW YORK -- A bounce for defensive names pushed small-caps higher Monday, though defense's lead caused some small-cap traders to question the gain's sustainability.

    Cambrex Leads Defensive Gains; DryShips Slips

  • These are murmurers full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaks proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake.

    Democracy, Monarchy and the Fourth Commandment

  • Production is not for production's sake as Art is not for Art's sake; nor is, production for gain's sake.

    Fr. McNabb Speaks - Over-Production or Under-Consumption?

  • Art learning only now, that every single man cares for himself more than for his neighbour, some from honest motives, others for mere gain's sake? seeing that to indulge his passion their father has ceased to love these children.

    Medea

  • These are murmurers full of complaints, walking according to their own desires, and their mouth speaks proud things, admiring persons for gain's sake.

    Archive 2008-01-20

  • Art learning only now, that every single man cares for himself more than for his neighbour, some from honest motives, others for mere gain's sake? seeing that to indulge his passion their father has ceased to love these children.

    Medea

  • "The gain's much more than theirs," he must argue.

    The Stars Are Also Fire

  • "The gain's much more than theirs," he must argue.

    The Stars Are Also Fire

  • These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete

  • These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete The Challoner Revision

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