Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most part, PR's elimination of the winner-take-all character of most systems of district or at-large voting means that a minority of any appreciable size will obtain representation...
...telescope cameras have sent back nearly 5000 ultraviolet pictures, primarily photographing the stars lying in the plane of the Milky Way. A satellite was necessary to obtain these pictures because the earth's atmosphere blocks most types of ultra-violet light and makes ground observations in ultra-violet wave-lengths impossible...
Little Unrest. It seemed a pointless killing. Shermarke had gained a mild reputation abroad as a troublemaker when he served as the nation's first Prime Minister between 1960 and 1964, largely because of his efforts to obtain sovereignty over those parts of northern Kenya and eastern Ethiopia roamed by Somali nomads. His domestic policies, however, had produced little unrest. After a three-year period out of office, he was elected President in 1967. He chose as his Prime Minister Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal, 41, who promptly proceeded to end the border frictions...
...CBLF advisors Joanne Pelham and Joseph Tyree said they doubted they could obtain municipal or corporate funding for the Drug Center. They had previously spoken with the Cambridge Corporation, but received a "flat no." They hope to finance it with the income from the Black Studies Bookstore, they added...
...ultimately evaluates her trip to Hanoi as a crucial liberating experience. Explaining its effects on her, she cites the French students who manned the barricades in May, 1968. Sontag says they feel that, though they didn't obtain their specific objective, they haven't been defeated. That is, for individual who have "enjoyed a reprieve from the inhibitions on love and trust this society enforces, the revolution has just started, and it continues...