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Promotions for black Washington policemen, before recent policy revampment, were difficult to obtain. Green attributed this to former "subjective ratings by superior officers which were the basis for promotion. Now, everyone must be promoted after a certain number of years...
Another problem in data collecting is that most of the Vietnam statistics are readily available from hospitals in the province capitals but reports from village and district dispensaries are harder to obtain. In addition, many cases of deformed births are referred out of the country provinces and taken to large city hospitals, so that the affected child is treated in a city (where no spraying has occurred) rather than in the province where the investigators are checking for herbicide effects...
...herbicides has had an extreme effect on the people, the ecology, and the military conduct of the war. In order to obtain information about the consequences of herbicide use on the people and the land, the American Association for the Advancement of Science commissioned a group of scientists, the Herbicide Assessment Commission (HAC), to go to Vietnam and make such a study...
...majority of students on four of the 14 panels (24 students) were in favor of the selection procedures, the CRR could obtain the four undergraduate members of the committee...
...Qabus. Sent to England at 16, he attended Sandhurst and spent six months as a lieutenant with the British army on the Rhine. When Qabus returned home, he spent four years under virtual house arrest. He sometimes went a full year without seeing his father, yet had to obtain the Sultan's permission even to leave the palace...