Search Details

Word: gotten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...remember when I was younger, he took my 'Thriller' album that I had just gotten and said, 'I need this thing! I need to understand this Michael Jackson person,'" Elisabeth recalled. "After listening to the album three times, he came down from the attic and joked, 'I don't understand why Michael Jackson is such a big deal...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eminent Byzantinist Dies, Leaves Legacy of Open-Minded Scholarship | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

...Treasury has now announced three plans and clearly has not gotten the job done," she told Geithner at a hearing last month. "What’s going to be different now, Mr. Secretary...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bank Bailout Overseer, an HLS Professor, Named Bostonian of the Year | 1/5/2010 | See Source »

...most important component [of the checklist] has turned out to be making sure that everybody in the room has been introduced by name and that people just take a minute to discuss the case in advance. I introduced the checklist in my operating room, and I've not gotten through a week without it catching a problem. It has been really eye-opening. You just realize how fundamentally fallible we are.(See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

...talk about health care reform. Do you think the Democrats have gotten it basically right or wrong when it comes to slowing the growth of medical spending? The core point at which health care costs explode is the point at which the doctor and the patient sit down together to make a decision about what they should do for care. We have not concentrated enough, in our thinking about reform, on that moment. What we want is care that is much better organized. We are going to need approaches like checklists to get rid of wasted care and to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atul Gawande: How to Make Doctors Better | 1/4/2010 | See Source »

This year's ball - first unveiled for the 2008 drop - is 12 feet in diameter (double the size of balls past) and weighs 11,875 pounds; it sparkles with 32,256 LED lights and 2,668 crystals. It's not the only thing that's gotten bigger since the 1900s; a crowd estimated at a million people will be celebrating in Times Square on Dec. 31, and millions more will be watching worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brief History of The New Year's Eve Ball | 12/31/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | Next