Word: garnered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adhere to the debt policy held by both the United States and the Western commercial banks, such as Citibank, debtor nations had to impose harsh austerity measures to garner capital. Austerity measures entail raising taxes and reducing expenditures, very often by slashing the budgets of state-owned industries, lowering the subsidies of government provided products and raising the prices of bus fares and other state-run services...
Leave it to the performer who is free from pressure to create surprises. Harvard will not be the odds-on favorite to garner the Ivy title, but improving on last year's fifth-place finish is a reasonable goal...
...national elections in 1990. As for the cocky Christian Democrats, they trailed their own 1985 performance by almost 9 percentage points, winding up with just 55 seats, the same number captured by their perennial rival, the Social Democratic Party. The Free Democrats fared so poorly that they failed to garner even a single seat, thus ending any hope of resurrecting the current coalition...
Joseph P. Kennedy II announces his candidacy for the Cambridge City Council in hopes of being the first seasoned politician to garner the mayoral seat and the governorship of Massachusetts at the same time. In a related event, Robert Healy is appointed city manager for life...
Athletes, without a doubt, are often given special privileges and considerations by almost all colleges that can afford it. They are feted, wined and dined by many colleges hoping for oustanding recruits to garner fame and glory, as well as heavy alumni contributions...