Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since so much insider trading is based on knowledge of impending corporate raids, the Boesky scandal heated up the public scrutiny of takeover artists. Economists and other thinkers wondered out loud whether greed had gotten out of control on Wall Street. "This is no longer free enterprise. It's predators on the loose," declared Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn, perhaps the most outspoken critic of corporate raiding. Observers began to describe the era as a time of paper entrepreneurship, in which a lot of stock and money changes hands but no real work gets done to benefit the economy. "In America...
...Fulbright, he never would have gotten in this mess." said Fulbright, referring to the crisis currently surrounding White House foreign policy-makers...
...Certainly we could have gotten a couple of used couches and called it a day," said House Committee Treasurer Sarah J. Dawidoff...
...This team is special," Cleary said. "I don't know what it is exactly. It's that little extra. You can sense it. I think it started when we lost to Michigan State last year [in the NCAA Tournament Final]. We hadn't even gotten home when [the players] were talking about next year and saying, 'Hey, we can get back here again...
...gotten more and more each year," Kingston added, "but as a club sport, we don't have good status in the pecking order...