Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attempt to reopen negotiations with the U.S. on that matter, if only to buy time. Unless a solution can be found quickly, Bush, like Reagan, could find himself sinking ever deeper into a frustrating brawl with a dictator whom few care for but no one knows how to get...
...get his wish, but Tom Bradley's Teflon is gone...
...feeling Hiwot, and everybody else, had better get used to. The U.S., and much of the world, is in the midst of a sweeping technological conversion, replacing human secretaries and operators with a new kind of high-tech wizardry known variously as automated answering systems, voice-messaging units or, most simply, voice mail. In the past six years, tens of thousands of voice-messaging systems have been installed in stores, offices and government agencies. The units answer phones, route callers and dispense information ranging from baseball scores and movie reviews to weather reports and horoscopes. Even the Vatican...
...months long. Some doctors are concerned that by threatening to prosecute pregnant drug users, officials will end up driving away even those women who could be assisted. "This sends a clear message to the women most in need of prenatal health, that it is dangerous for them to get help," says Dr. Ira Chasnoff, president of the National Association for Perinatal Addiction Research and Education. "It's a punitive approach that is being taken out of frustration by the legal and medical communities...
...international seabound trade through the canal. Japan, the second largest user, relies heavily on the canal for food imports. A shipment of grain from the U.S., for instance, would take about 20 days longer if it had to be rerouted. Even so, traffic may peter out as trade vessels get larger; already a sizable portion of cargo ships cannot fit through the canal...