Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Some of the students have gotten too concernedwith it, but most don't seem that concerned withit," he said. "I don't feel I've had much pressurefrom alumni, except ones solicited by thestudents. Most of them have written letters sayingthey trust my discretion as dean. Even if they'reconcerned about public interest, they support mydecision to close those positions...
...really surprised with the response we've gotten since it was dead last year and since it's so far away," said Chinn...
Reagan may have gotten the specific facts wrong, but he was on to something important. It wasn't the solutions he offered, but the problems he identified that won him such wide support. His speeches reveal that his true flair was tapping public discontent with the status quo, not selling his policy proposals...
...organization announced its plan to register all tusks as part of an ivory-control system, conservationists hoped the illegal trade would be curbed. But the deals that CITES officials struck with Singapore, Burundi and other nations, under which undocumented ivory could be registered, moved a mountain of ill-gotten ivory into the marketplace...
Adopting this new attitude is necessary if ideals are to be radically transformed, so that books, for example, can be seen to be more important than any status gotten from the stereotypical gold chains...