Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ITHACA, N.Y.--Despite holding the Big Red scoreless for 60 minutes, and snapping Cornell's four-game shutout streak, the Harvard men's soccer team failed to obtain a much-needed win, falling 3-1 Saturday at Berman Field...
...group of Haitians took an American cruise ship captive to protest pollution, and the NSC had to obtain the ship's release...
Pinochet's victims therefore went to Spain to search for the justice that was impossible to obtain in Chile. In asking another nation to prosecute, the victims were simply asking that Spain exercise a long recognized right--and obligation--under international law. Legal scholars have long held that customary international law permits any nation to try those who, like Pinochet, are accused of genocide or international terrorism. In the event that the nation where the acts occurred proves unable or unwilling to do so, third party nations have the right and obligation to prosecute...
...change almost immediately because the story keeps on developing. Last Wednesday Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic Press; 435 pages; $19.95) finally went on sale in the U.S., exactly two months after its publication in Britain. Those U.S. readers who had not managed to obtain a copy of the British edition, chiefly through Internet orders, swamped bookstores nationwide. From El Centro, Calif., to Littleton, N.H., many stores opened for business at 12 a.m.; others offered customers tea and crumpets or steep initial discounts. Barbara Babbit Kaufman, president and founder of the Chapter 11 bookstore chain...
...said the Desirs had asked to be allowed to remain in their apartment until Wednesday, when they were set to obtain new subsidy certificates that might have allowed them to find a new apartment in time...