Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woeful ignorance of basic civil rights issues. Asked about the distinction between de facto (actual) and de jure (legal) segregation, Lucas drew a blank. "If it had been a white man who had been nominated who had the same background," said Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, "he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I think the fact that Mr. Lucas was black caused more consideration to be given...
Spurred on by their early successes, pro-Iranian extremists have continued taking hostages and killing members of the American military with relative impunity. Despite the tough rhetoric cultivated under former President Reagan, things have not gotten much better...
...bleepin'] right. First it was WWF wrestling. Then, Benny Hill. Now, they've gotten rid of Morton Downey...
BOSTON--Massachusetts revenue officials, ever on the watch for a new tax source, are planning to expand their efforts at tapping the ill-gotten gains of drug dealers by levying the state sales tax on their illegal transactions...
...revenue officials plan to attack the drug dealers matter-of-factly. If a dealer's records show he sold $100,000 worth of drugs, "he should have been charging a 5 percent sales tax. He should have gotten $105,000 from the [sales] and then turned that $5000 over to the state," Houghteling said...