Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best of our knowledge, it doesn't even exist," says John S. Weissman '88, roommate of Daniel Wright '88, who is listed as the contact person for the club. Weissman says that although the club has gotten Wright invited to a number of Undergraduate Council parties, neither he nor Wright knows quite what the club is supposed to be or how it came to be included--with Wright's name--on the official list of student groups...
...Kristin and the rest of her eight stumble into breakfast each morning, go through the kitchen in unison, toast their bagels in unison, pour their cereal into bowls in unison, and then sit down to discuss the morning's row. Whether they were all wet because they had gotten splashed, I neither knew nor wished to find out. Very dry, dressed for school and engrossed in my morning paper, I didn't really have any desire to join them. They were a breed apart...
Meanwhile, when it comes to actually helping drug addicts, the Reagan record is, not surprisingly, dismal. Detoxification centers--lacking adequate funding--must turn away addicts daily. In fact, things have only gotten worse for those trying to get off drugs. Centers which once treated heroin addicts free of charge now must charge their patients substantial fees as a result of Reagan's budget cuts...
...standing in a park in Bolivar, Tennesse listening to Senator Jim Sasser give a speech. An old farm lady who saw my grey suit came up to me with tears in her eyes. She wanted to thank me for what the Senator and his staff had done. They had gotten her son discharged from the Marines when the Marines were about to put him in jail for two years...
...help patients like Archie Harrison, 32, of New York City, who is caught in a vexing Catch-22. Harrison took part in a Retrovir trial and is now well enough to resume his career as an actor. But if he works, he may lose his Medicaid benefits. "AZT has gotten me to the point where I can think about a normal life," he says. "I don't want to have to decide not to take the drug...