Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult to prescribe exact behavior for a covert undertaking. Strict rules of conduct could be damaging in certain situations. Suppose terrorists manage to obtain and hide an atomic weapon, then threaten to blow up a city?a not inconceivable happening in the decades ahead...
...Justice Department official, Russell Baker Jr., had been notified by Marston's office as early as last Aug. 17 about an investigation involving Eilberg, a powerful House Judiciary subcommittee chairman. Eilberg's Philadelphia law firm had received a handsome $500,000 in legal fees while helping to obtain federal financing for a new hospital in the city. Also involved in the project and the investigation into it was another prominent Pennsylvania Democrat, Congressman Daniel...
Since that day, evidence pointing to marijuana's medical usefulness has mounted steadily, but federal laws continue to be based on the hysterical misinformation of the past. As was the case a year ago, patients cannot legally obtain prescriptions for medical uses of cannabis because federal laws classify the drug in the same group as heroin and other hard drugs...
Postel could not predict how many students would obtain excuses this year. He said," We don't keep day by day records of excuses. We add them...
Their efforts should produce, in effect, a stop-action picture of the rapidly changing features of the great land swell. From this picture, they hope to obtain a more definitive view of the strange events around Palmdale. That knowledge, in turn, could eventually enable them to predict if-and possibly when and where -an earthquake will strike. "'Uplifts have been observed before several major earthquakes," notes Seismologist Peter Ward, chief of earthquake mechanics and predictions for the U.S.G.S. Among these quakes is California's last large temblor, the one that shook the San Fernando Valley in 1971, taking...