Word: garner
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Summers said that some legacy preference is not unreasonable, pointing out that it’s a way for the University to maintain a greater community and garner alumni support—financially and otherwise—with an admissions process that is still fair...
...whatever administrators release is a work in progress. That is, after all, the point of releasing the working groups’ recommendations to the student body: to facilitate a fuller and more open debate about proposed changes. While Gross’s and Wolcowitz’s attempts to garner student input are appreciated, their model is flawed—if they are to elicit the widespread student opinions they should want, they must open up their process and allow working groups to air the ideas they’ve had more than a year to formulate...
...experience, TF’s often begin section with a piercing or controversial question, only to receive deadly silence and vacuous looks from their students. In spite of the TF’s efforts, the section awkwardly rolls on and generally each student speaks up a couple times to garner the necessary participation points. Rarely does a section discussion have students sitting on the edge of their seats—let alone spark a heated debate. Yet, this negative environment is not the consequence of poor TFs; rather, it’s due to the students’ lack...
...only way for the Nader campaign to escape the sheer magnitude of the task is to garner the support of third parties with ballot lines, such as the Green Party. However, after withdrawing his candidacy for the Green Party nomination, Nader must bank on the “Redraft Nader” campaign, which seeks to grant him party nomination at the Green Party National Convention in June. Even there, his chances for success will be severely diminished by the contingent of Greens who question the logic of running a candidate at all and would prefer to back the Democrats...
...easiest to predict; the most-watched show to date was the year Titanic was guaranteed to cast all of its competitors to sea. The audience seems primarily concerned with seeing their favorite movies get big shiny statues, and by that logic, this year’s show will likely garner huge ratings...