Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there has been a recent boom in so-called "political" stocks on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Thus an obscure stock can be grossly inflated in value while a candidate-tipped off in advance-makes a killing, with no capital gains tax to pay. Occasionally candidates have been known to obtain large loans from banks in the hope that after the election, business friends will "volunteer" to pay the money back...
That transcript, which appeared in full in the March 29 Crimson, showed that the government was now conducting a "fishing expedition" in the grand jury room, attempting to obtain again to plan information not about the subject under investigation, but about other possible leads--any leads--that it might be able to pursue...
Failing to obtain an affirmative answer on direct knowledge, the grand jury moved into the more questionable area of opinion. They asked his opinion on who may have possessed the papers; how he had formed his opinions; and who were his sources from which he formed his opinions...
...federal court soon remanded the case to the state court. Back in Middlesex Superior Court, Cronin persisted in his endeavor to obtain a preliminary injunction barring the waitresses from picketing the restaurant...
...point to the New York state legislature by displaying a fetus in a jar was striking indeed. How righteously the antiabortionists would respond if someone presented on the house floor the preserved body of a young girl who had succumbed to sepsis from an abortion she could not obtain under sterile and controlled conditions...