Word: obtainable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop bad marriages before they start. The best part of Louisiana's law requires serious premarital counseling. So many of us, under the sway of Mad-Love Disease, haven't got a clue about what we're entering into. A marriage license should be at least as hard to obtain as a driver's license. Requiring the marital equivalent of being able to parallel park might knock a little sense into heads more concerned with registering at Bloomingdale's than deciding whether the kids will be baptized...
...seated provisional legislature ratified a law giving police the power to ban political demonstrations, more than 3,000 pro-democracy demonstrators marched through the downtown area deriding China's form of government and demanding freedom of speech. Such protests may become more difficult starting Thursday, when all demonstrators must obtain a permit from local authorities before assembling. In an attempt to further calm fears of a crackdown, the Chinese leadership has promised Hong Kong citizens that soldiers assigned to garrison duty will be forbidden by law from involvement in Hong Kong's affairs and will not appear on the streets...
...impossible to arrange. Locating and capturing Kansi became a high-priority project for FBI and CIA personnel in Pakistan, a rare joint venture by the rival agencies. Several times, when agents thought they were close to nabbing Kansi, President Clinton became directly involved, contacting leaders in southwestern Asia to obtain clearance to send in U.S. agents--only to have them fail to get their...
...work in the last weeks of the Bush Administration. His technology, which neutralizes toxic detritus in a vat of iron heated to 3,000[degrees] F, seemed like a promising solution for the Energy Department's nuclear mess. So Molten Metal was chosen as one of 18 firms to obtain research grants. But even then there were some skeptical voices: Energy Department consultants warned in 1992 that Haney's process offered "no significant advantage" to "justify its preferred development" over rivals...
...order to be exempted from the Princeton language requirement, a student must obtain a score of four on the AP or 740 on the Achievement exam, fully 140 points higher than the Harvard cut-off level...