It was LATER in LIFE when I FOUND out that I had thyroid ISSUES and gained a ton of weight. I got up to 200 POUNDS.

I did kung fu up until two weeks before Benjamin was born, and yoga three DAYS a WEEK. I think a LOT of people get pregnant and decide they can turn into garbage disposals. I was mindful about what I ATE, and I gained only 30 POUNDS.

Ronald Reagan and BILL Clinton both had EXCEPTIONAL natural abilities. NELSON Rockefeller was very good statewide but NEVER gained NATIONAL traction.

I GAINED WEIGHT, and that started a 32-year struggle with weight and EXERCISE and BODY image PROBLEMS.

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of VOCABULARY and syntax, are FASCINATING: how IMPORTANT connotation is, what is LOST and what is GAINED in the linguistic transition.

No GROUND GAINED was EVER relinquished.

The notion of a NEUTRAL, MAINSTREAM national MEDIA GAINED dominance only in World War II and in its aftermath, when what turned out to be a temporary moderate consensus came to govern the country.

As I LISTENED more and more to the MUSIC that MOVED me, I gained more FASCINATION with America.

I GREW as an actress, and I feel I GAINED a lot, whenever I have WORKED with any GREAT director in the past.

When we violate the law ourselves, WHATEVER short-term ADVANTAGE may be gained, we are OBVIOUSLY encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do INCALCULABLE damage to our own long-term interests.

September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to SELL stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than THREE MONTHS after the post-9/11 LOW REACHED on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.

It is curious that the two best-known British historians in the United States are Andrew Roberts and Niall FERGUSON, each of whom represents, in FACT, a DIFFERENT school of serious historical writing, and both of whom seem to have gained for themselves, PERHAPS without intending to, a special reputation on the American RIGHT.

Yes INDEED I have gained a lot out of playing SCALES and etudes.

I was in Dallas and I had gained weight and knew BECOMING a VEGETARIAN was the quickest WAY to LOSE it. I just wasn't sure if I could do it.