Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long-time advocates of gay rights said the climate has gotten progressively more liberal where homosexuality is concerned, but worry about the effect the resurgence of fundamentalist religion could have on this year's debate...
...distressing is that the white response to imposed power sharing--for Harvard is where the country's political and economic powers begin--has been an increasingly negative one. Already critics have challenged the legitimacy and efficacy of policies aimed at reducing discrimination, such as affirmative action. Minorities have barely gotten to their knees, but are already being pushed back down. Within this context, the call for an end to desegregation is not the least bit alarmist...
...what has happened to legal training at the Harvard Law School, in some respect I agree with Richard. I think that it has gotten broader and more interesting, more variety. In some respects, however, I think it has deteriorated. I think it's deteriorated because there has crept in an attitude, both among students and faculty, that rigor in thinking and careful, painstaking work is somehow not worth it, because one should jump rather quickly to "the big issues." I see it in classes every where, that there is a decline in the willingness to really deploy evidence carefully...
Administrators claimed that police force was the only alternative--the students had gotten into the building's records and were distributing material "about the personal affairs of faculty members," according to Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. "The administration had lost all control over the building and could not have persuaded students to come out," the dean recalls...
Seng had previously gotten written permission from Houghton to publish the poem. He would also have needed the approval of Wordsworth's trustees, a group of scholars and the poet's descendants, who govern scholarly access to the poet's works and his property in England...