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By strategically annexing the city of Timbuktu, and reestablishing power over the city of Gao, he gained control over important trade routes between the Mediterranean and the West African Coast, continuing a period of expansion, which dramatically increased Mali's size.

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Over tens of thousands of generations, such skills increased the status of those who displayed them and gained a reproductive advantage over the less capable.

I had gained 25 pounds.

The U.S. has invested four billion dollars converting to digital mammography equipment, and what have we gained from that investment?

So it gained some traction, and we're trying to roll this out and trying to use it for educational purposes, but also, perhaps in the future, in a more clinical situation.

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