Word: gotten
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...remains a member in good standing. Indeed, a government spokesman said last week that Greece would take part in NATO's surveillance of Eastern Europe by U.S. AW ACS radar planes. Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces no threat from the Warsaw Pact. One clue to the inconsistency is that Turkey has already joined the AW ACS program, so Greece evidently did not want to be outdone...
Especially with those unusual American customs. "I like hockey. It suits the Irish temperament," O Coilean says. But, he adds, "I don't like American football. And baseball could be gotten over with a lot more quickly...
...library staff in general feels we have gotten second shrift. We are put under pressure to keep growing, but given no place to put the stuff," said the staffer. "They have no real concept that the library is a growing thing...
Harvard grads are "very loyal but also fairly critical," says Bok, and what they really care about are things like the shape of the Houses, the quality of undergraduate education, free speech, and financial aid, Says the president: "I've only gotten five letters about the football team in 13 years...
Mondale's performance should also rid fellow Democrats of their maddening propensity to refuse to embrace the ticket. It's been fashionable of late to bad-mouth Mondale and his campaign as losers--even Tip O' Neil has gotten into the act--but that should disappear now with Mondale's closing statement. The question, Mondale argued, should not be that posed by the President--are you better off than you were--but will we, as a nation, be better off in the future by the policies being debated. In saying so, he disavowed the repellent selfishness underlying the Republican appeal...