Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington should be able to garner the necessary signatures by early next week, at which point they'll be used in a last-ditch attempt to force the Serbs to back down. "Milosevic hasn't given much ground in this week's meetings with Richard Holbrooke," says Waller. "NATO is hoping that having the activation order in his back pocket will give Holbrooke more leverage." So the West plans to cock its guns but keep them holstered to give Milosevic -- for real, now -- his last chance...
Ergo, the setback in this year's set-to with Cleveland seems bizarrely ordinary. A 3-1 series loss is hardly epochal enough to garner a place alongside Pesky holding the ball, Lonborg pitching on two days' rest in Game Seven, the Spaceman tossing his Leephus pitch to Tony Perez and Bill Buckner misplaying Mookie Wilson's grounder...
...imagine how Jerry Springer would herald her performance: Oprah makes love with a naked Danny Glover! Oprah squats and urinates! Oprah as Sethe: Victim or murderer? The story is based on the true case of Margaret Garner, a renegade slave who tried to kill her children rather than allow them to be returned to the plantation from which she had escaped. In the novel, Sethe is pursued by the spirit of the one child, Beloved, who died at her hand. But the film is really about the things we do for love, about the fatal consequences of moral strength, about...
Case in point: The race's only openly gaycandidate, former State Representative Susan M.Tracey, failed to garner the endorsement of theGay and Lesbian Political Alliance ofMassachusetts, and was the target of a damningshrug-off by the major gay newspapers. Instead,they endorsed former radio personality, MarjorieO'Neill Clapprood...
...Allan Kenney, owner of W.T. Kenney, said apetition to ask the NLRB for a secret election onunionization had failed to garner the supportneeded for the board to order a vote. The petitionfell well short of the 30 percent necessary, saidKenney...