Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...qualified student can now obtain up to $1000 in loans in addition to a $1000 grant each year, Malin said. He said that the new program, by eliminating Federal loans, would force more students to borrow money from commercial banks...
...have electricity, but it probably has no sink, toilet, bath or shower. He typically receives $1.43 an hour without overtime, sick pay, unemployment benefits, or a medical plan, although he is far more susceptible than most other workers to accidents, disease, and unemployment. It is difficult for him to obtain social security, but that wouldn't help much--his life expectancy is 49 years...
...once believed that after the Faculty Council resolution passed, Afro faculty members other than Ewart Guinier '33, the Department's chairman, would obtain some influence in running the Department. This has not happened. Though no junior faculty opposed the Faculty Council resolution, they are in no position to challenge the Guinier leadership. Since Guinier has controlled his Department for three years, the Afro junior faculty--many of whom are not from Harvard--have little knowledge of how the normal Harvard bureaucracy operates. They have been unable to use the additional influence the new Faculty legislation gives them. Further, it would...
...Brown hadn't compiled his legislative record with an eye toward higher office. He had introduced a bill to prohibit carrying loaded firearms in pickup trucks, another to allow horse racing and on-track gambling in some counties, another to help day care centers obtain Federal funds, another to liberalize divorce laws. In short, no one was urging him to start house-hunting in Washington...
...Cambridge Property Owners Association, told the Council that many small landlords cannot afford lawyers or time off from work to seek notices on tenants who refuse to pay rents. He cited the case of one landlord who lost $406 in back rent while waiting seven months to obtain an eviction notice on a non-paying tenant...