Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major posts in three Democratic administrations and earned a reputation as "University troubleshooter" during campus disorders several years ago, last night became a casualty of the latest round of firings and resignations in the Nixon administration when he refused to heed a presidential order to cease his efforts to obtain the Watergate tapes...
Fisher said he thought the purpose of the Egyptian and Syrian attack was not to obtain a better negotiating position. "It is more elemental," he said. "They have tried peace for six years and it hasn't worked. Their only alternative to gain back what they want is through...
...Israeli military aim is to conclusively defeat the Arabs so as to avoid any future attack of this sort," Safran said. He said that the Arab aim to obtain a definite foothold on the east bank, in the Sinai, was being forestalled. "The Arabs must reach the line of Passe in order to achieve victory," Safran said. "They will not be able...
...student would learn the characteristics of his own society and culture as well as the responses that other societies have made to the human dilemma in terms of politics, economics, family relations, literature, philosophy, morality, etc. As a result of such a course of study, the student would obtain a less parochial view of the world and an understanding of how societies change. Perhaps most important, it is Reischauer's view that the new comparative education would help the student to realize that in the course of human events, the solution to one problem only breeds new ones...
...apparently started the ball rolling in the admissions departments, both of which plan to obtain from testing agencies the names of potential black applicants, who will in turn be asked to apply to Harvard...