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The sentence containing the offending Americanism read: "The county governors have gotten the wrong end of the stick."Gotten is an Americanism, not used in British English.

The battle to keep Americanisms from creeping into our media

"But I've gotten a lot of wonderful feedback from Mr.

On the cusp: second companies mean gaining experience, the chance to learn new work, and a shot at getting into the corps

Ben, what's the best human encounter you've gotten from your comic, Snakepit?

Bloodbath and beyond

At the same time, the world at large has gotten far more complex.

Having difficulty implementing multiple initiatives? Try planning in reverse: "backplanning" is an approach that many CFOs and their teams are using to collectively visualize the interdependence among teams' key milestones for initiatives competing for resources and funding

"The verdict was not perfect, but it's a lot more than we could have gotten in the past," admits Smith, who began tracking murders of transgender victims in the late 1990s.

Bittersweet justice: in the wake of the Gwen Araujo trial, activists are grimly aware of how difficult it is to obtain a first-degree murder conviction when the victim is transgender

"I would have never gotten the loan without the grant.

Seeking seed money: grants for starting a small business are available through a variety of local sources. Here's how to get them

The fact that place-kick "punts" go farther, are more accurate, and are gotten off quicker, makes it a no-brainer decision.

Stop kicking! Try the place-kick punt

At first it was very difficult to find funding for that kind of work, but it has gotten better and better."

Peter Daszak: exploring disease pathways

"We haven't gotten to that point now, but it certainly could come."

Playing hard ball: independent agents are taking advantage of the hard market to grow their businesses through referrals, retentions, focused marketing and some in-the-field underwriting. (Industry Strategies: Agents)

(1) The odds of saying that drinking had led to unplanned intercourse during the current school year were twice as high among students who had first gotten drunk at age 12 or younger as among their peers who had first been intoxicated at age 19 or older; the odds of reporting that unprotected intercourse had resulted from drinking also were doubled among those who had had an episode of drunkenness by age 12.

Youth who first got drunk by age 12 have relatively high levels of risky sexual behavior during college. (Digests)

If he has gotten results, it may be easy for him to win reelection, but it will be because Bush has been a capable president, not because Rove is a genius.

Rove rage