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The Cape plan has attracted millions of dollars in support from the World Bank and other international sources, but Cowling regards that achievement as much less important than the progress made in gaining support from various interest groups.
Greenbaum in his Grammar , with its democratic, what's said, corpus-based approach to language, unwittingly, I am quite sure, keeps the really proper use of English in the hands of those who are to the manner born, while allowing the media moguls to interpret or misinterpret the topics of public concern as they will and at the same time disallowing the vulgar from gaining a firm grasp on the means by which they might enter the debate.
The night Operation Allied Force began, Primakov, en route to the United States for loan negotiations, turned his plane around in midair, losing the money but gaining immense popularity at home.
Which is not to say that Newsweek still won't try to throw Ginsburg a few bones in the hope of gaining his cooperation, or that Time won't skillfully let him make a fool of himself.
The paper also says that the idea of a resolution censuring Clinton is gaining congressional momentum.