Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...record buyers, selling more than 3 million copies of her debut album Baduizm; this summer she's a headliner on the Lilith Fair tour. Other new neo-soul artists such as Maxwell, with his enlightened ladies'-man charm, and laid-back auteur D'Angelo have also managed to garner critical and commercial success...
...School Committee elections one challenger managed to garner enough votes to unseat an incumbent...
After winning EIWA in the 134-pound weight class, DeNunzio had a shining performance at Nationals, becoming the first Harvard wrestler in 15 years to garner All-American honors...
...made solely in order to allow Harvard to vaunt before the world how much it has done for women--in a kind of belated public spasm of political correctness--by affiliating to itself a "Radcliffe Institute." More materially, these sacrifices are to be made so that Harvard may garner unto itself all alumni/alumnae dollars--it is currently prohibited from fundraising directly from Radcliffe classes prior to 1977--and that it may absorb into itself Radcliffe's considerable endowment and not insignificant real estate. Who gains and who loses in this arrangement should be glaringly obvious, but apparently...
...real coup for Burma's military rulers would be to garner independent interest in travel to Burma. Burma's military government would like nothing better than for a Let's Go Myanmar! guidebook to help them dress their country up for excited tourists...