Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because maintaining a patent can be expensive, before beginning the patenting process the University also needs to gather a list of companies interested in licensing the invention, he says...
After targeting Rivera, the police used "surveillence and other police methods" to gather evidence for the arrest, Stanford said...
...Arkansas governor. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright said that allowing the case to proceed now would "interfere with the conduct of the duties of the office" of president. Still, contrary to the efforts of Clinton attorneys, Wright wouldn't dismiss the case and permitted Jones' attorneys to gather sworn statements from witnesses. Jones, a former Arkansas state employee, filed the lawsuit two days before the three-year statute of limitations had run out, something the judge noted in deciding that there's no urgency in proceeding with the case...
...trip, but what if the Muslims attempted an assassination and blamed us?' " John Paul sent a personal envoy to Karadzic to get him to repeat the same thing to his face. He did. That indirect but personal threat -- together with the dangers facing the citizens of Sarajevo who would gather for a papal Mass -- scuttled the trip. "We thought of publishing the real reason why the trip could not take place," said Navarro. "But in the end we just said, 'We cannot...
...Family by Ian Frazier (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). The author, first visible as a New Yorker humorist, then as an observer in Great Plains, an elegiac portrait of the American heartland, turns reflective and inward in this long, moody rummage in time's attic. He began to gather material about his near and distant family after the death of his parents, searching, he says, for the meaning of life, for "a meaning that would defeat death." The journey -- perhaps more correctly his obsession -- began in 1987. Collecting family papers, dating as far back as 1855, he filed them in two boxes...