Word: obtaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same time, the embargo on Iraqi exports, especially oil, has cost Saddam $1.5 billion a month since he invaded Kuwait in August, leaving his nation without the foreign exchange it must have to offer as payment for smuggled goods. For now, Iraqi factories can dip into preinvasion stockpiles or obtain parts plundered from Kuwaiti factories. But by next spring or summer, Webster predicted, "only energy-related and some military industries will still be functioning...
...dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets to the reduction of human suffering. The dilemma is that we must obtain more funding for the support of this effort in order to capitalize on those opportunities and improve the morale of the scientific community, while at the same time acknowledging that we have been generously supported for the past 40 years. Thus it is difficult to formulate a message that...
Stephanie Atkinson, who said she was recently discharged from the U.S. Army under "other than honorable circumstances" for her request to obtain conscientious objector status, described her experience with the military to the audience of more than 150 people...
Bush must not be allowed to derail the sanctions policy by using the Security Council resolution to obtain war powers from Congress. Of course the U.N. resolution passed; the signatories had little or nothing to lose...
...that, along with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece...