Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government regularly raids its so-called trust funds," Steve Forbes explains in a recent Forbes magazine column. "Imagine looting your employees' pension plan each year and treating the ill-gotten moneys as operating receipts." The trust fund only exists because the ratio of workers to retiree is high. A Social Security crisis will arise when the baby boomers retire. Then, the government will require more revenue to pay retirement benefits than it will accrue by taxing the nation's reduced work force...
...rebuff to the IOC, the court ruled that the Olympic body had no business testing athletes for marijuana ? good news for a hemp-friendly snowboarding community that had gotten all fired up over Rebagliati?s disqualification. The Japanese police were less forgiving, however, interviewing the athlete and searching his room for traces of the illegal substance. Rebagliati claims he hasn?t used marijuana in 10 months, and that the traces in his bloodstream came from secondhand smoke...
...gotten to meet so many amazing people with different perspectives," he added. "I've even made some e-mail penpals...
...done basic science, looking at neurons and coded signals," Counter says. "That kind of science has gotten me very far. At this point in my career, [however,] I want to do field work that will enable me to help others while I answer important research questions and that will permit me to take students into the field...
...Diana's injury, a torn pulmonary vein, is survivable. But, as one American doctor says, "time is of the essence." It took nearly two hours from the time of the crash to transport Diana a mere four miles to hospital, via slow-moving French ambulance. "If they'd have gotten her there in an hour," says the doctor, "they might have saved...