Word: obtaining
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...also recommended that the colleges exercise greater control over the apprenticeship period of teacher instruction, and give the "cooperating teachers" an "associate of the college" position and financial renumeration. Also, the period of apprenticeship should be prolonged when necessary, for the student to obtain a certain level of competence, the report said...
Gard called specifically for an "attempt to stabilize the long-range striking but warned that if stabilization is achieved at too low a level, one side might too easily obtain an advantage over the other. Still, he said, the U.S. can maintain a balance of arms with "obsolescent weapons" or with "a mix of weapons," for the Pentagon has little hope of developing an effective anti-ICBM. "It would be like hitting a needle with a needle...
Houghton claims that he saw nothing wrong when Lonsdale asked him to obtain information and documents, even enlisted the help of his fiancee, Elizabeth Gee, 46, who also worked at the naval station. Between them they collected and photographed secret manuals (Particulars of War Vessels), Admiralty orders and charts. Nights they frequently relaxed at the Elm, where the pub's other patrons had come to know the generous and jovial Houghton as Harry. "One of our best customers," said the publican's wife. "We were amazed at his arrest...
...further example of a cliché, the authors modestly offer: "Beckson and Ganz, busy as bees, are working like dogs to obtain filthy lucre." Whatever their motive in writing the book, they obviously do not believe in the cliché that one man's opinion on a work of art is as good as the next man's, and they hold that it is easier to judge a work if one commands a set of technical terms...
...Three Cities' Chambers of Commerce formed a committee to obtain pledges from local residents to buy $5,000,000 worth of shares, pushed the stock to $34. Some Endicott-Johnson employees circulated a petition requesting that $10 million of their pension fund be invested in E-J stock if necessary to block Glen Alden's bid, got 65% of the workers to sign. One reason: many E-J workers migrated from nearby coal fields where Glen Alden mining operations declined in recent years, caused layoffs...