Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mechanics of the new political technology are an artful blending of the old and the new. Once signed on by a candidate, most successful computer-data firms begin by lining up volunteers to obtain voter-registration lists, which are transmitted to punch cards. These lists are supplemented with the names of the non-registered, who then become the target of a massive telephone survey. In 1970, for example, Valentine, Sherman & Associates, the firm that worked on Humphrey's return to the Senate, called and classified people in more than 750,000 homes in Minnesota...
...been going on for several weeks, and are scheduled to last for at least another fortnight; Nonagenarian Casals, with his 35-year-old wife Martita, has been enjoying every minute of them. He was depressed, however, by atrocity photographs from Bengal and observed: "Savages! We are all savages. To obtain peace at the rate we are going will take another 300 years. But we must start...
...boss to fiddle with a director's efforts. What was unusual was that Leonard, unlike the sometimes helplessly subordinate directors of old, protested loudly and publicly. In the version of Going Home that was recently released, starring Robert Mitchum, Aubrey carved out 21 minutes of graphic footage to obtain a GP (instead of an R) rating. Some of his deletions toned down a rape scene, but when Leonard saw the result he charged: "He unilaterally and arbitrarily raped the picture...
...Project is the development of "on-line" computer capabilities for social science. Under the old "batch processing" method, the user would have to wait several hours or days for results from a computer. But "on-line" (or "interactive" or "time-sharing") computing means that many users can almost simultaneously obtain immediate results. To the social scientist, on-line computing enables formulation of each question based on the computer's answer to the previous question. The advantages of such a method for military decision-makers especially in a crisis situation, are evident. Researchers working under the Project's auspices are developing...
...example, evolve during untold eons on earth when there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. To those primitive forms of life, in fact, oxygen would have been a poisonous gas. Thus instead of requiring oxygen, Martian organisms, like some terrestrial bacteria, might thrive in a carbon dioxide environment. To obtain water if they need it, Martian organisms may have evolved mechanisms to unlock the supply chemically bound into the rocks