Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...script reads the same in Guatemala, where General Efrain Rios Montt seized power last year in a coup d' etat. Although estimates of the total deaths under Guatemala's several decades of authoritarian rule range from 50,000 to 100,000, Reagan decided that the country had gotten "a bad rap." So he certified Guatemala as having made notable progress in respect for human rights, and obtained $6.3 million in war materials for Gen. Montt (even though 8000 died in the first eight months after his takeover). The country officially remains in a "state of siege" as rebels fight authoritarian...
...team freshman year," he said, "and we've gotten better every year. My class--we have eight seniors--we've played together for a long time.... This is what I came to Harvard...
...seem all that dangerous on the surface, it's really a trap. Ten more minutes can become ten more minutes and ten more minutes and so on, until lunchtime. The "snooze" is successful when you have nothing to do that day, but want to feel like you've gotten up early. On days like these, you set the alarm for 8:30 a.m. and "sno-o-o-ze" until 10:30 or so. With the labels "snooze" or "dream" or even "varilarm", like mine, there is no pressure or guilt. You simply tell your-self, "I am awake...
...dropping its reservations about the automaker's status as a "going concern," which had hung over every statement of the company's earnings for the past three years. Said a jubilant Robert S. Miller, Chrysler's executive vice president of finance: "We've gotten our financial driver's license back...
...center, the Alliance Party in Britain has been prowling the periphery of British politics for two years, hoping to come between the standard Labour and Conservative Party couple. This week the Alliance--a fusion of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and the Liberal Party--may finally have gotten up the nerve...