Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with all the swollen powers of the Executive Branch behind him, evidently saw no salt whatever in Archie Cox. When the president refused a Circuit Court order to hand over nine tapes to Judge John J. Sirica and ordered Cox "to make no further attempts by judicial process to obtain the tapes," he expected Cox would quietly resign as he had when Truman crossed...
Peretz and Richard G. Leahy, associate dean for resources and planning, began discussing the finances for the construction in April. The plans have existed for several years as part of a long-term renovation proposal for South House for which Harvard has been unable to obtain money...
Worried by that same ominous thought, Kissinger flew back to Israel. He had managed to obtain at least an oral promise from Assad that the fedayeen would be policed. He convinced Israeli negotiators that they should eliminate their demand for a clause specifically forbidding paramilitary forces to operate across the buffer zones. Instead, he substituted a secret protocol to the effect that Washington will not oppose Israeli retaliation in the event of future raids. The Israelis accepted this. Armed with their affirmative response, he once more sped back down the Judean hills to Ben Gurion Airport and made...
These are not the only abuses. One owner, without bothering to obtain power of attorney, took over his patients' bank accounts, charged them a high private rate until their resources were exhausted, then kept them on at the lower rates paid by Medicare and Medicaid. Other operators increase their profit margins by tacking extra charges onto already high bills. Mendelson reports that one Virginia nursing home listed charges of $3 per day for care of bedsores, which probably resulted from staff neglect in the first place...
...legal education. Through its "cooperative plan," students, after an initial year of classroom study, divide their remaining two years between formal course instruction and clinical work in a variety of law-oriented jobs. By allowing students to gain practical law experience, NE provides them the opportunity both to obtain a well-rounded picture of law as it is actually applied in society, as well as to shop around among different types of employment so as better to enable the student to determine his career after graduation...