Word: garnering
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Bashman said the House resolution was most likely designed to garner press coverage and send a message “to the folks back home,” rather than to influence an already-sympathetic Bush administration...
...community and beyond. The BSA established a motto for the month—“Black History Is Your History”—and it was in this spirit that black student organizations have sent out mass e-mails and tacked up posters around campus to garner attention to Black History Month events, according to Owusu-Kesse...
...refuses to tolerate the loss of American soldiers and the general expense necessary to improve the lives of so-called third world citizens—perhaps Bush can appeal to his personal popularity in the Red States and the worth of the mission in the Blue States to garner the necessary support to get involved in the catastrophes in those nations...
...under what kinds of conditions would they participate? Across the ethnic and political spectrum, Iraqi leaders say the best way for the new government to garner support would be to set a deadline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops. It might even help convince rejectionists--nationalistic insurgents as well as disaffected Sunnis like contractor Nasreddin--that the new government is not a puppet of the U.S. Spokesmen for several militant groups have told TIME that a scheduled exit of U.S. troops is an essential condition for any negotiations with the new government...
...colleagues and stars, Abrams is cheerful and eager--"a kid in a candy store," says Garner--but perfectionist. For Lost's pilot, he bought a passenger jet, over the objections of his crew, who wanted to use a smaller plane, and had it chopped up and shipped to the set in Hawaii. When this year's Alias season premiere failed to blow his socks off, he reshot the whole thing, in five days. The fans pay him back in cultlike intensity. Fans on the Internet spin extended Lost theories: that the castaways are dead and in limbo, that the polar...