Word: garner
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...capacity. Currently, Burdick’s is licensed by the City of Cambridge to have 16 people in the store, a number it regularly exceeds during holidays and busier hours, said Napier. According to Fabis, Burdick’s is looking to begin a petition in the store to garner community support to expand its capacity. Lint said she imagined their application would be successful. Fabis said that the continuous conflict with Settebello has become a nuisance. “In economic times like these, it’s disconcerting that a fellow small business owner is putting so much...
...That the Prince of Wales is looking to borrow a little Obama magic may seem odd. By convention, Britain's royals steer clear of politics. But the Queen's eldest son has long stretched definitions with his passionate advocacy for environmental causes. He has recently helped garner international support around the idea of a rain-forest bond, a method of interim funding designed to ensure that trees are worth more alive than dead until carbon-trading schemes really take off. He has privately lobbied leaders from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Italian Prime Minister Silvio...
...implies something entirely different to garner support from an opposition that consists of a significant and diverse sliver of the electorate than one that consists of nothing more than its uncompromising base. Presidents Nixon, Reagan, and Bush failed to win over the most hardline Democrats, so one cannot fault Obama for failing to penetrate the bowels of the Republican camp...
...last winter's insufferable holiday comedy Four Christmases), McConaughey plays Connor Mead, a glamour photographer with an eye for philandering. After breaking up with three girls "in bulk," over a video conference call, he goes to his brother's wedding weekend, re-wounding his old inamorata (Jennifer Garner) while causing about as much domestic havoc as Anne Hathaway did in Rachel Getting Married, and with the same low entertainment payoff. This alpha dog is a baaad Connor; Scrooge-like, he must be visited by three spirits who will show him the error of his ways...
...makes house calls, lays gentle, knowing hands on the patient, then moves on to his next erotic appointment. Sure, his fans can imagine for a second that he will settle down with them as he does at the end of his movies with Lopez or Hudson or Parker or Garner. But he'll have to leave them to woo the co-star of his next project. That's show business. That's romance, Matthew McConaughey-style...