Word: gotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take the Senators-only elevator, which, sadly, doesn't have any cool Senator stuff in it, and when we reach the seventh floor of the Hart Office Building and walk into Tester's new office, it is hard not to feel like a family that's gotten picked for the bizarro version of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, in which people come to your house and, in just 48 hours, make it look like crap. Whereas once Tester had high ceilings and period details, now he has cubicles and modular furniture. It's just not Senator-worthy. Tester notices my disappointment...
...American arrogance with undue humility. "If you try for the perfect solution, you're asking for failure," he says. We have to tolerate a world that isn't quite as we'd want it to be. It will be interesting to see if Barack Obama, who has pretty much gotten his way at every turn, will be able to handle that...
...have you gotten any responses before...
...International Narcotics Control Strategy reports that 90% of cocaine, for example, reaches the United States through its southern border. Drug-related violence in Mexico has gotten so bad that it is now spilling over into states such as Arizona, which has suffered a rash of kidnappings and ransoms. (Arizona's 370-mile border with Mexico serves as the gateway for nearly half of all smuggled marijuana.) Texas' request for National Guard protection from Mexican drug crime prompted Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair to declare last week that the Mexican government had lost control of its own territory. President Felipe...
...says Dr. Robert Wilder, a co-author of the Mayo Clinic study. "One thing that is very clear is that kids who have surgery without the appropriate anesthetic have higher degrees of morbidity and, in some cases, even mortality associated with surgery compared to kids who have gotten the appropriate anesthetic." (Read a TIME cover story on children...