Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Getting the money, however, is only half the game--deciding where it should go is at least as important. Administrators are much more vague about how they will distribute their new funds than about how they will obtain them...
...must be protected from exploitation by other societal members. Different political platforms advocate different rights--the right to free medical care, the right to minimal taxation--but all demarcate the interaction of the individual within the group. A person's rights protect him from future harassment, but to actually obtain those rights he must already be a member of the group providing him with those protections. An Australian cannot lay claim to American rights until he is on American soil (or its equivalent). He may have a guarantee that should he enter the United States, he will be accorded many...
...side? Would the Soviets then move against China? "We were on the verge of a possible showdown. If the Soviet Union threatened China, we would not stand idly by. A country we did not recognize and with which we had had next to no contact for two decades would obtain some significant assistance...
...country we did not recognize and with which we had had next to no contact for two decades would obtain some significant assistance-the precise nature to be worked out when the circumstances arose. To provide some military means to give effect to our strategy and to reinforce the message to Moscow, Nixon now ordered an aircraft carrier task force that had been alerted earlier to proceed through the Strait of Malacca and into the Bay of Bengal...
...union will also seek to obtain a built-in cost-of-living clause--a condition that other unions have unsuccessfully sought in the past...