Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...locked-down, state-protected economy. By dint of insistent negotiating, the U.S. has since 1993 reached 15 trade agreements that have opened the door somewhat. Included are two very difficult treaties to protect intellectual-property rights. The world's worst pirater, says U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky, "has gotten very serious about this because they have to if they want foreign investment...
...only wish she'd used more examples. Shemight have gotten home to people that we all livevery privileged lives," said Mary Proctor...
...pick up the booking sheets for the night and noticed a bride sitting in the waiting room. I radioed my editors and told them the situation, and they responded that I should see what was going on. We had heard a little about the story already (her husband had gotten arrested at their wedding reception), and they wanted to know if she would tell us her side of the story...
JASPER, Texas: Just when Jasper thought it had gotten over the horrendous killing last week in which three white men are accused of dragging a black man two miles to his death, along comes the KKK. Klansmen plan to hold a rally at the sawmill town's courthouse on June 27, a mere two weeks after the funeral of James Byrd Jr. While their appearance is the height of bad taste, and does not represent anything like the majority opinion in this racially mixed environment, City Attorney Gary Gatlin says he can't stop the white-robed ones from showing...
...universe may have just gotten a lot heavier. A team of American and Japanese physicists announced Friday that the neutrino -- a pervasive but elusive subatomic particle long considered to be weightless -- may have mass after all, which could solve the mystery of why the universe doesn't seem as heavy as science says it should...