Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indians were not impressed by the sale price. The government had welched on less money in the past. To the Indians, the Black Hills were not a dollars-and-cents question. Even the tribes that readily signed treaties in the 1860s to obtain horses and blankets refused to sell the Black Hills...
...advantage of the impoverished Democratic Party, the measure has met with considerable skepticism from the White House. And the Internal Revenue Service has been hardly cooperative. The check-off was not put on the regular 1040 form, but on a separate form, 4875, that is a nuisance to obtain. There has been little promotion, and less advertising. As a result, only 3.3% of the first 24.3 million taxpayers filing returns this year have made use of the provision. Yet a poll conducted for the Twentieth Century Fund showed that 53% of those questioned favored the checkoff once it was explained...
...statement welcoming the huge investments by "our Arab allies" as a way of stopping the dollar drain ("If they cause us trouble," adds one White House economist, "we can always nationalize them"), but it expresses some concern at reports that Libya and Iraq are negotiating with France to obtain nuclear weapons...
...recognize West Germany, the first to join the International Monetary Fund, and the first to receive an American President, Richard Nixon. Ceauşescu's role in thawing relations between Peking and Washington has earned him the gratitude of both China and the U.S. Nixon has promised to obtain most favored nation status for Rumanian trade, and Ceauşescu recently became the first East European leader to buy U.S. airliners-three Boeing 707s for more than $40 million, including one outfitted for Ceauşescu like Richard Nixon's Air Force...
...medical organizations likely to know where to find them-in 223 cities in 79 countries, from such popular tourist spots as France and Denmark to such little-visited lands as Botswana and Burma. The directory is so up-to-date that it even tells the traveler how to obtain medical care in the People's Republic of China...