Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while any campus pressure can make a difference, protests from major research universities like Harvard and MIT are especially important because those institutions garner a large number of Department of Defense projects and grants. In addition, MIT sends a large number of officers to the navy each year...
Unfortunately, being stamped "made in America" does not always connote the quality or garner the respect that it once did. However, I am loathe to think that we should continue to allow systematic targeting resulting in the demise of U.S. industries to persist, while the door to the Japanese market is welded shut to non-Japanese competition. For example, the construction industry in Japan is a feudalistic fiefdom, closely working with the Japanese government to exclude foreign competition. For the protection it receives, it liberally lines the coffers of Japanese politicians...
...Smith says that Bound to Lead's readibility, combined with its popular and controversial topic, is bound to garner more publicity for Nye and further enrich his academic reputation. "My hunch is that the book is going to get even more acclaim," Smith says...
Most observers predict that the two leading candidates--State Rep. Steven D. Pierce (R-Westfield) and former U.S. prosecutor William F. Weld '66--will each garner enough delegates at the convention to stay on the ticket...
...there were "NIT" banners at Yale's Payne Whitney Gym urging that tournament's selection committee to consider the Elis--Ivy League runner-up to Princeton--for its postseason tournament. Yale is unlikely to garner the bid, despite its 19-7 record, because of its easy schedule. Case Western Reserve, Swarthmore and Columbia aren't exactly the type of competition any national tournament wants to see its teams playing...