Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Padilla says he has gotten this reaction less as his classmates have gotten to know him better. "But there is still no effort to make conservatism seem like a normal thing," he says...
...late last year. HFS zoomed from $4 a share at the time it went public in 1992 to a high of $79.87 last October. No one was happier than Silverman, whose personal holdings topped $600 million in value. Since then the stock has faltered on fears that HFS has gotten too big and unwieldy; but the price has rebounded in recent weeks and closed last Friday at $69 a share. "HFS moves so quickly, and makes so many acquisitions, that it is difficult for the investment community to fully understand everything it is doing," says Camille Humphries, an analyst...
...Rome, where he has lived for two years, Leavitt views the Esquire flap with a mixture of irritation and bemusement. "I wish the story had been published," he says, sipping a cup of cappuccino at a Neapolitan cafe near the Chamber of Deputies. "I think it would have gotten a lot of attention as a story, and not as a news story." He doubts that any automobile ads would have been pulled from the magazine if his story had appeared in its pages. "Do you know how many gay men own Jeeps...
...Knopf; 273 pages; $23). "Billy peered over the edge of the roof," Kelly writes. "Far below, the life of the city surged through the streets like the blood of a great snarling beast, unimpeded by his concerns. He was just one more fool in its hard history who'd gotten in over his head." Good magenta stuff, requiring only a little Hammond-organ ominoso to sound like the musings of Guy Noir, Garrison Keillor's private eye, who works "on the 12th floor of the Acme Building, in a city that knows how to keep its secrets...
Although many students plan to one day enter the business world, some students have gotten a head start by founding their own companies...