Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Montreal Summer Olympic Games in 1976," Trump recalls. "I'd dated a lot of different women by then, but I'd never gotten seriously involved with any of them. Ivana wasn't someone you dated casually. Ten months later, in April 1977, we were married." They were married, incidentally, by Norman Vincent Peale, the prophet of Positive Thinking, and then Trump put his bride right to work supervising the interior decor for all his projects. (There are also three children, Donald Jr., 11, Ivanka, 7, and Eric...
...Without a couple of starters, [the tournament] gave a good opportunity for the younger players to get experience against some good teams that they normally wouldn't have gotten," Dooley said. "We're a young team with eight or nine freshmen, which is almost half of the team. I learned a tremendous amount about what they could and could...
...Catching On: Another bright spot for the cagers has been the early-season play of Co-Captain Neil Phillips. Phillips, who only three weeks ago was catching passes for the varsity football team in The Game against Yale, seems to have gotten the hang of playing both basketball and football...
...only way they could have gotten back in the game is if we beat ourselves," Delaney Smith said...
...salary competition among executives to absurd levels. Says John Swearingen, former chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana: "There is a limit to what managers ought to be paid for managing other people's money." Adds a top executive involved in a current takeover: "The yardstick for compensation has just gotten twelve inches longer. The chief executive who's doing a first-class job running a major U.S. corporation for $890,000 a year is going to start thinking he's some kind of a fool...