Word: obtained
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Massachusetts presently has one of the strictest gun laws in the nation. A prospective gun owner must obtain either a license to carry firearms or a firearms I.D. card permit allowing him to keep a gun in his home or business, but not to carry it on the streets. The applicant must prove he is not an alien, felon, drug user, or mental incompetent. In practice, a local police chief can deny a qualified applicant a license to carry firearms if he feels there is not sufficient need for it; anyone without a license or permit caught with...
...gives the unions two seats on the boards of directors of firms with 100 or more employees. This law is not considered an extension of union power so much as a way to obtain necessary insights into the operations of large firms...
...secrets." The American official to whom he renounced his citizenship in Moscow, the people who received him when he returned to the U.S., his associates in Dallas and New Orleans, and even his cousin can be traced to the CIA. Most crucially, Oswald travelled to Mexico City attempting to obtain a Cuban visa during precisely the two months in the summer of 1963 when Howard Hunt was CIA station chief there...
...made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing the plants. Bricklin himself proclaimed last week at a press conference in Toronto that "the Bricklin car will continue to be built in New Brunswick." That sounded like whistling in the dark-especially since Bricklin had already gone...
Bruce Bassett, vice president for fiscal management at Columbia, said yesterday that Columbia will obtain the unrestricted loan in place of a bond issue that the university had been asking since last spring. The present bond market makes bond issues "impractical," he said...