Word: garnered
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...long known that much of the help for patients with terminal and chronic illnesses comes from family members. A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine reports that the burden is heaviest when the relative is suffering from a chronic illness like heart disease, which doesn't garner as much public attention or medical support as cancer. Such care, they note, disproportionately falls to women, who handle it in 72% of cases...
However, even with the wealth of talent on last year's squad, the team was never quite able to play to its full potential. For the first time in four seasons, the Crimson was unable to garner the Ivy League championship and instead ended up disappointingly second in the league behind Dartmouth, an eventual NCAA quarterfinalist...
...river. Park Rangers are a notorious scourge of BASE jumpers, confiscating equipment and prosecuting for trespassing. Fillipino contemplates what would happen if the president of a BASE rig company were busted for an illegal jump. He foresees trouble with his bankers, he imagines the bad publicity his business would garner, and he says he's not going. There are some risks he is simply not willing to take...
...Devil, and Bob (September 1999) Animated television show in which Bob is caught between God (voiced by James Garner) and Satan (voiced by Alan Cumming...
...guns onto campus or threatening to off their enemies. Some schools hired guards; others canceled classes altogether. There is no telling exactly how many of these threats were serious. But it's clear that Littleton, at the very least, has given troubled and misguided kids a new way to garner attention. "Most kids aren't interested in this stuff," says Elissa Benedek, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Michigan. "But there are lots of unhappy ones who want their moment in the sun, and this...