Word: garnering
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...manufacturer and ship it using military transport, which would be less expensive. Here's a third idea: purchase all the Silly String you can find, and drop it off at the closest military base to be shipped along with the same troops whose lives the stuff could save. Karen Garner Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Rebuilding The House Incoming house speaker Nancy Pelosi failed in her campaign to elect her ally John Murtha as House majority leader [Nov. 27]. But why should anyone have been surprised by Pelosi's decision to support the populist Murtha? The Democrats' gain in the election...
...group “would in theory only have women talk to women,” rather than have a businessman like DeLuca speak. “But that doesn’t make sense, since we don’t discriminate as a organization, and we want to garner women with whatever knowledge we can.” The talk was the latest in a series of events with prominent entrepreneurs, including an October trip to Nebraska to meet America’s second richest person, Warren Buffett, and a meeting last April with NBC Universal CEO Jeffrey...
...will likely try to garner more faculty support in an attempt to pressure the administration, according to Petersen...
...authors to draw conclusions on miscast votes. Confused or rushed voters would sometimes vote for the candidate adjacent to the one they meant to support. “An estimate of adjacency misvoting,” according to the study, was the increase in votes a minor candidate would garner when he or she was placed next to a major candidate on a certain ballot. Voting results were contrasted with demographic data to see which groups were most likely to cast erroneous votes. The study estimates that, in a close race, Republican Schwarzenegger would have received an 0.06 percent boost...
...Yale rap group’s annual Harvard-Yale battle anthem has continued to garner criticism from undergraduates even after The Game for its explicit references to sexual violence...