Word: garnering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Democrat who wins California in a contested primary election might garner California's 47 electoral votes in the national election. And an early decisive victory in the Golden State would create a dominant party candidate at an early stage, preempting the intra-party squabbling that has plagued the Democrats in recent campaigns...
That position did not garner much support until last spring, when France and Australia, two countries with a major presence in Antarctica, suddenly announced that they backed the world-park idea and would not sign the Wellington Convention. In Washington, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is leading a drive to get the U.S. to withdraw its support of the accord. Until the debate is resolved, there will be no agreed-upon strategy for protecting Antarctica from mineral exploration...
...European Community has already dispatched planeloads of food and medical supplies to Bucharest. Gorbachev and the Soviet parliament have passed a resolution of "support for the just cause of the people of Rumania." In the days ahead, the people of Rumania will need all the help they can garner from both East and West if they are to recover from their bloody rebirth...