Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electable candidate. Like Jesse Jackson, the other leader of the Democratic pack, Hart arouses such high negative feelings in the polls that he is hardly a plausible nominee. Yet together they could draw enough votes to make it more difficult for any of the other five contenders to garner a majority in the primaries. Though the chance of a brokered outcome remains small, it is now more conceivable that, midway through the primary process, the party elders will strongly press for a Mario Cuomo, Bill Bradley or Sam Nunn to come in and pick up the pieces...
...vote set a precedent for the Senate as motions to discharge a bill from a Senate committee rarely garner support, often receiving only a single vote from the sponsor of the discharge, legislators said...
...pauper of 1988, Babbitt has little to lose, so he can risk everything. He is betting that his brutal honesty about cutting the federal deficit -- by raising taxes and slashing middle-class entitlements -- will garner attention. It is the only strategy he can afford...
...build a president, earn a promotion, garner respect...
...advertisers, including McDonald's, Pizza Hut and the Bank of America. Nearly 35,000 U.S. video stores have signed up to carry the ad-bedecked cases. With good reason. Video Ad Network President Scott Johnson claims that a retailer who sells space on 2,000 tape cases could garner $16,000 or more a year in ad revenues...