Word: garner
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Affiliation with the 1.1 million member AFSCME, which has 75,000 university employee members nationwide, has made HUCTW leaders confident that the union will finally garner recognition after four failed attempts to win endorsement from Harvard workers...
...Wright would like to put on the mantle of the great Texas Speakers: John Nance Garner and Sam Rayburn. His legislative gusto and keen political acumen may help him achieve that end. But while his reputation is likely to grow on Cap itol Hill, he may find it difficult to achieve the public stature of O'Neill, who in the Reagan years became the nation's most visible Democrat. With Democrats again in charge of the Senate and a presidential campaign just revving up, Wright will have many a rival for that role...
...Garner a bid to the NCAA tournament...
...Coalition, one of several groups directing the petition drive, recently enlisted the aid of several Harvard affiliates in an attempt to garner support from the Harvard community...
PUTTING THE WORDS "Supreme Court" and "campaign" together yields a phrase as oxymoronic as "military intelligence" or "jumbo shrimp." By requiring Justices to grovel before the people in order to garner votes, California--and most other states, for that matter--violates one of the most crucial tenets of American constitutionalism. For the judiciary to check and restrain the other two branches of government, judges must be free from the pressures of electoral politics. To elect judges--and thereby force them to be responsive to the whims of the electorate--is to sacrifice long-term justice to the political trends...