Word: gotten
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Noting that stories and photographs of the governor have appeared on the front page of the state capital's local newspaper twice in a week, Jones said Dukakis’ recognition statewide is equal to Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat who has gotten more attention so far in his anticipated bid for the presidency...
Melvin H. King, who opposed Flynn in the 1983 election, also said that Flynn's popularity rests with this public image. "Flynn is very good with the media. He's gotten the people to believe he's concerned and that he cares. The poor have some sense that he is promoting their interests," King said...
...contest received a record 757 entries, said Teri J. Rolfes, a spokesman for the Minneapolis based company. "It's the most we've ever gotten in the history of the contest," she added...
...nominee directed by Martin Scorcese. The war in this film Vietnam, from which one Travis Bickle has just returned. Although Travis, played by Robert (fuckin') DeNiro, was not physically injured during his tour of duty, some essential mental functions are decidedly absent, as in, "lights on, nobody home." Having gotten a job as a cab driver, Travis has ample opportunity to observe the filth (animate and inanimate) that permanently infests New York City. Confronted with a grimy and desperate reality, the earnest hack prophesies: "Some day a good rain's gonna come wash the shit from these streets...
...employees' needs, as he suggests he does in his brewery, there would be no need for workers to unionize. Additionally, Coors equates strikes with warfare, and is happy to declare himself the winner. He notes, "Where unions have gone out on strike with our company, they have not gotten back in." However, according to a Coors spokeswoman, three strikes in the past 30 years were settled without ousting the unions...