Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Ross Perot addressed an NAACP audience as "you people" last year, the nation's newsrooms echoed with charges of racism. But now, when he exploits "dirty Mexican" caricatures to garner opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Fourth Estate is silent...
Under proportional representation, citizens rank their choice of candidates. Whenever the candidate a ballot is counting for amasses a surplus of votes or fails to garner enough votes to qualify, ballots are transferred towards the next numbered candidate...
Rice does manage to garner the reader's sympathy for her characters. Evil spirits and people who should seem detestable are made glamorous and enchanting. Rice wields language in a powerful way, lulling her readers into an enchanted world in which evil spirits such as Lasher lose their ominous qualities. One feels part of a fairy tale unlike any other fairy tale one's heard. Though the novel is certainly melodramatic, Lasher is also quite subtly hypnotic...
...have always had a policy where we have wanted to have the full array of reproduction and women's health services," said John G. O'Brien '72, the hospital's chief executive officer. "What we have simply done is to garner the resources to implement our existing policy...
...council elections, which began Tuesday, will last through tomorrow. Fine said he would probably need to garner about 30 votes to win a seat...