Word: garnering
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...immediately settles into a groove of pregnant pause followed by cliche. The makers of JAG are not masters of subtlety, and while that might be fine for a show about a military court, the Supreme Court requires a bit more nuance. Yet First Monday has a Chief Justice (James Garner) who begins each session by making all nine Justices put a hand in the middle, football-huddle style, and yell, "Let's go make history." The cases--about discrimination against transsexuals, parental rights over teen abortion or the death penalty for the mentally impaired--are shamelessly sensational. And every Justice...
...seems regrettable that a writer’s airbrushed nipples might garner more discussion than her prose, and Wurtzel admits that the “photo doesn’t represent me at all.” But she insists that, publicity ploys aside, “that picture was just kind of an execution of what I was trying to say, which is that you can be many things all at once. That I felt like feminism hadn’t accomplished its goals if a woman doesn’t get to be many things at once...
Reich said he did not think it would be easy for him to win enough delegates to qualify for the September primary, but that he was determined to fight. Reich needs to garner 15 percent of the delegates at the Democratic state convention in June to make it on to the ballot—but many delegates are expected to commit to candidates by the party’s caucus in just over three weeks...
Reich said that he did not think it would be easy for him to win enough delegates to qualify for the September primary, but that he was determined to fight. Reich needs to garner 15 percent of the delegates at the Democratic state convention in June to make it on to the ballot—but many delegates are expected to commit to candidates by the party’s caucus in just over three weeks. Reich joins a crowded field of six Democratic candidates, including likely frontrunners state Senate President Thomas F. Birmingham ’72 and former...
...voting for mayor on Monday, Galluccio—who was the leading vote-getter in November’s city election—was only able to garner two of five council votes necessary to win in his bid for a second term. Marjorie C. Decker also sought the post, winning two votes...