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...obtain the requisite permits for local shooting, producers must provide a minimum $1,000,000 Certificate of Insurance and a bond of $5,000 to the city. Arranging for parking clearance and assistance from the Boston Police and Fire Departments requires additional expenditures...
...Helped Lewinsky, a potential witness in the Paula Jones trial, obtain a job in New York City...
...opportunity he spurned, choosing instead to devote his energy and intellect to serving others. His uncompromising and unrelenting insistence on the end of de jure white supremacy, coupled with the political savvy necessary to obtain results, led to one of the most significant political and social events in modern world history: the South African government's gradual abolition of apartheid...
...rich buying up government assets at bargain prices and two years ago financed Yeltsin's come-from-behind election victory. The reappointment of Chernomyrdin, the ponderous former natural-gas bureaucrat who was for years Yeltsin's most obedient Prime Minister, signals the intention of these rich men to obtain a government that will protect their ill-gotten assets...
...first glance, the Phillipses seemed prosecutable. Child-neglect laws in nearly every state make parents who fail to obtain medical treatment for their seriously ill children liable. However, a 1974 federal child-care program made funding contingent on the states' exempting faith-healing parents. That requirement no longer exists, but 41 states retain exemptions from local civil-abuse and -neglect laws. In Oregon, Arkansas, Delaware, Iowa, Ohio and West Virginia there are also exemptions from criminal homicide or manslaughter charges. Says Gustafson: "I've spent nights trying to figure out a way to bring the message to this church that...