Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sugar. Depite these potential profits, said Reagan, "I am opposed to the state using such a method to obtain revenue. I reject the idea that the state might take advantage of its citizens or that it should operate its finances on the one-shot windfall theory or that the average man will cheat his government...
...assembled in his human mind such a collection of dim platitudes which lead so inexorably to a non-conclusion?" As for columnists, "I wonder if they would be so lavishly used if they were not dirt cheap; if it was not possible for an editor or a publisher to obtain for a song so much copy of such high respectability?" Many columnists "conceal an idea the size of a pea in a stack of dry straw. Does nobody discipline them? Does nobody make them rewrite or throw a column away? Are they sacred cows that are allowed to wander unmolested...
...dearth of such experimentation on the Reading Dynamics techniques. Evelyn and her partisans claim that nobody has been able to invent a machine with enough range to test the super-reader. The college reading teachers say that nobody has asked them to build one. Neither side appears anxious to obtain indisputable truth. There is too much to lose. At this point, each has a vested interest in maintaining the status...
...from the same period last year on sales of $43 million. Part of the problem, explains 65-year-old Vernon Stouffer, who parlayed his mother's recipes into millions, is cost control. "Rents and investments have grown tremendously, and higher salaries in other industries make executives difficult to obtain." Litton's resources, he points out, will be an enormous help...
...financial needs except those he can provide for with his two years of teaching. Since the student does not have to get his fellowship renewed annually, he need not feel pressured to attain especially high grades. A student holding an annual fellowship may lose it if he fails to obtain...