Word: garnering
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Leavitt also spoke in opposition to the expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, which was authorized yesterday by the House of Representatives. The program provides medical coverage to children in low income families. The bill is likely to garner significant support in the Senate, but President George W. Bush has promised to veto...
...eligibility age requirement, supposedly there to improve college ball and teach players the right way to play the game).The speech, which lasted roughly an hour and a half, had a strange effect on me. It made me appreciate the sports environment at Harvard.Crimson sports don’t garner the same fanfare or attention as larger, non-Ivy League programs. We don’t attract the nation’s top prep school stars to play in Lavietes Pavilion and Harvard Stadium. A big reason for this is that the Ivy League has outlawed athletic scholarships, which leads...
...bracelets stated “Live Strong” as opposed to something like “I have cancer.” From a fundraising angle, the yellow bracelets were a hit because they provided a slogan that was inspirational. I doubt that these T-shirts can garner the same sort of success. “HIV-Positive” is not a mantra, but rather a simultaneously in-your-face and empty phrase...
...with speech impediments. Caldwell’s lisp, if she even has one, is barely noticeable; many of us are not so lucky. Millions of Americans feel an illogical but powerful shame at not being able to do something that comes as easy as breathing to everybody else. We garner curious stares when we exhibit secondary symptoms, like twisted faces and balled fists. I would bet I’m not the only person in the College who has tasted blood in his mouth after clenching his teeth so hard during a block that made his entire head hurt. About...
...same time, Obama's stance could help him garner a larger share of the state's non-Cuban Democrats (especially non-Cuban Latinos), who were repulsed by hard-line exile politics during the Elian Gonzalez fiasco. And as for the general election, even many hard-line voters have changed their mind about Bush's travel and remittance policy...