Word: garner
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DIED. BOB HUNTER, 63, Greenpeace's media-savvy co-founder, who coined the term Rainbow Warriors to describe the environmental group's hard-charging activists; of prostate cancer; in Toronto. The brusque former journalist devised clever slogans and spectacular events to garner maximum TV coverage for such campaigns as those to stop whale hunting, protect baby seals and reform logging practices...
...after drawing hundreds of superbly perplexed stares from passersby, Duehr excitedly notes, “It really does have the effect we wanted it to have.” It might not garner the critical appreciation of the Gates or change their lives, but sprawling questions over mirror shards certainly induces passerby to look at the Yard and respond...
...first semester at Radcliffe College, Kumin, who had just turned 17, placed into an advanced writing course taught by Wallace Stegner. Stegner would garner critical acclaim one year later for his largely autobiographical novel “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” but when Kumin first met him, he was still a relatively obscure member of Harvard’s English Department. Stegner’s sharp-tongued manner of speaking to students, as Kumin recalls, belied the sensitive prose that would define his fiction in later years...
...media profile do the dirty work. Those that feel that divestment will have practical effects are deluded. The withdrawal of Harvard’s investment will temporarily change a firm’s stock price by some insignificant amount. Consequently, divestment is just a moral stand designed to garner media attention...
...attempt to garner support for the Allston move, University President Lawrence H. Summers told SPH faculty at a meeting April 13 that the school would be able to maintain facilities at its current Longwood location, as well as populate new buildings in Allston...