Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seem a great distance from the shacks of the Bayou backwater to the pink stucco of the Burbank 'burbs. Reynolds, in his latest film, hasn't really changed at all--his acting style is the same. Unlike such granite monoliths as Charles Bronson and Clint Eastwood, he's always gotten by on cuteness rather than caliber. But this lack of depth has never really mattered before...
...Boston native applied for the coaching vacancy at Harvard, after Carole Kleinfelder (still coaching lacrosse here) resigned, because: "I had never really gotten a resume together or interviewed for a coaching job, and I wanted the experience...
...billion times better shape than we ever were before," Hall remarked. "She pushes us to work hard. If I don't play my hardest in practice and in games, I feel like I'm cheating her and myself." Horne concurs, "I think everyone's play has gotten that much better, just because she asks that much more from us. It's not that we were never capable of giving a lot more before, it's just that no one ever asked it of us, except...
...limited to the unemployable--high-school dropouts and graduates who are illiterate--and should stress remedial skills along with job training. Once these teenagers gain the skills necessary to enter the labor force, the tax credit attached to their hiring should get them the jobs they couldn't have gotten on the basis of experience from federal programs...
Mills said the union's twin demands for a shorter work day and more pay is a compromise position and reflects Local 285's view that "we realize it's hard times and we're not looking for wage gains like we've gotten in the past...