Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also approved. Since the Ervin committee's suit for the tapes had been thrown out of court by Sirica (on the narrow ground that the committee had not demonstrated a legal standing to bring the suit), Stennis thought the Nixon offer might be the best the Senate could obtain...
Reynolds said if the transit authority does not move and the University is able to obtain the property (he meant the air), a "platform" might be constructed over the train-storage area and two new houses built atop the platform...
Most of all, these six concentrations offer the sort of education many students came to Harvard to get and feel they cannot obtain within the established disciplines...
...delight, not distress, that I read "Women: Still Unequal" [Oct. 1]. Clark Kerr reports, the Carnegie Commission endorses and TIME has published a fact that women's colleges have known for much more than a decade. In single-sex institutions young women enjoy the special advantages they cannot obtain elsewhere, namely leadership positions, full participation in all academic activities and an abundance of role models...
...been well established long before Agnew's emergence as a promising officeholder. At the time of his election as Baltimore county executive (1962), "it was well known in the business community that engineers generally, and the smaller engineering firms in particular, had to pay in order to obtain contracts from the county." State contractors shaken down during Agnew's term as Governor "were not surprised that payments would be necessary because it was generally understood that engineers had been making such payments for consulting work in a number of Maryland jurisdictions." In effect, the Government readily concedes that...