Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chief Benjamin Cate reported that Carter had lost credibility because of his "mulish support of Lance in the face of the overwhelming evidence that his Budget Director was, at the very least, a wheeler-dealer. Had Carter cut his losses early on by easing Lance out, he would have gotten himself off the hook." From Boston, Senior Correspondent James Bell noted: "A wide variety of politicians, businessmen and academicians only want to know when Lance is going and why he hasn't gone already. You can almost hear Carter's support dripping away like a faucet in the night...
...their trade depends on the waterway which they do not want to see shut down because of political instability or mismanagement. Despite the Latin leaders' public messages of unwavering, unambiguous support of the canal pacts, one visiting foreign minister fretted: "I hope that Jeemy Carter has not gotten himself to far out on a limb on our behalf...
...SCOTT TUROW had gone to law school anywhere but Harvard, he couldn't have written a book about his first year. Or at least, he couldn't have gotten it published. It says a lot about the publishing industry in America that One L, all 300 pages of it, could appear in bookstores throughout the country: not satisfied with the coverage given the Harvard Law School in Paper Chase and Love Story, G.P. Putnam's Sons had to jump into the act--an act that doesn't exist, say, for law schools at the University of Wisconsin or Boston University...
After working for six years to balance the budget, "it is certainly a nice feeling to have gotten there," he said...
After working for six years to balance the budget, "it is certainly a nice feeling to have gotten there," he said...