Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...played a good opponent," senior Lenny Ilkhanoff said. "It would have been great to beat a nationally-ranked team. We felt we could have gotten into the tournament...
...taxes, the people tolerated the corruption that went along with the system. But that party is long since over. When oil prices went bust in the past decade, so did the state treasury, which now faces a projected $1 billion budget deficit for the coming year. Though things have gotten a little better since 1987, Louisiana still has trouble attracting new business. That's because business bears a heavier, and more unpredictable, tax burden than the state's residents, who have long gotten a nearly free ride...
...Levine's new book, Inside Out, his wife repeatedly asked him, "Why?" Why did he need the ill-gotten money? He really couldn't answer. But let's look at what Levine did for a living. He put people together and arranged deals. In the time you and I spent on the phone arranging this visit, he could have made tens of thousands of dollars. You don't feel efficacious or psychologically competent when people bring things to you and, essentially, do your paper work for you. There is no challenge. You may feel rich...
...Harvard, studies that track how students from different ethnic groups use various university services have just gotten underway, and so far they have yielded little consistent data. Approximately one out of 14 Asian undergraduates and one out of eight Black students--compared to about one out of six white students--sought help at Mental Health Services last year. But at the Bureau of Study Counsel, those percentages did not hold, and research into this area continues...
...radically from Hill's. Thomas is a "rigid person who insisted on the prerogatives of his position," observes Emory's Neisser; such people can be "good repressers" of unpleasant memories. As for Hill, Loftus suggests that it is possible she unconsciously confused some past experiences. "Could she have gotten the information elsewhere and created this story?" asks Loftus...