Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other Pennsylvania political figures are awaiting trial. State Senator Francis Lynch and former State Representative Stephen Wojdak have been charged with extorting $15,000 from a dentist to obtain his son's admission to the Temple University School of Dentistry. The U.S. investigation is continuing, and the pressure has shifted from the dean's office to the statehouse...
Hard drugs are still available at Harvard, but they are neither as cheap nor as easy to obtain as they were a decade ago. In the late '60s Harvard Square earned a reputation as one of the nation's clearinghouses for drugs. Today the narcotic industry at Harvard has ducked underground, and most hard drugs are available only intermittently...
...University drugstore is able to obtain drugs at lower prices than retail stores because it operates as part of UHS, which has the same status as a hospital. Independent pharmacies and chain stores must obtain their drugs from a wholesaler...
...meaning Protestant-dominated) provincial Parliament in Belfast. The earlier strike had led to the fall of the provincial government and caused Britain to impose direct rule. This time, however, it was a different story. At week's end it seemed clear that the strike had failed utterly to obtain its goals. The vainglorious act of defiance might even be Ian Paisley's last stand...
...sectionalism, it is safe to say that the exclusion of Mather and Dunster Houses from the hot breakfast group is a short-sighted move, one that is insensitive to its impact on already unpopular Mather. To argue that the Mather-Dunster kitchen must be closed for breakfast to obtain maximum savings is specious: if the hot breakfast is to be rotated from House to House, as Fox has said he hopes to do, these savings will disappear next year anyway. Starting the cycle in Mather or Dunster would make no financial difference; but it would probably help to offset Mather...