Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Investigators found that GSA's self-service stores, where federal workers obtain office supplies, were robbed of goods worth millions of dollars. One employee walked away with $262,000 worth of Polaroid film over a two-week period. Some store managers placed bogus orders with suppliers, paid them for the undelivered goods and pocketed kickbacks of 40% or more...
...receive the most-favored-nation status enjoyed by a great many countries. Nor did the U.S.S.R. obtain the substantial American credits on which it had counted to finance purchases of Western technology. These benefits were blocked when Congress in 1973 and 1974 linked them to the easing of Jewish emigration from the U.S.S.R., something the Soviets regard as interference in their internal affairs. In the 1976 presidential campaign, moreover, Gerald Ford publicly excised 'detente" from his vocabulary...
Ferre says he sees nothing wrong with politicians helping friends obtain CETA jobs. Says he: "It's just incongruous to conceive that elected officials aren't going to recommend people they have a high regard for." But spokesmen for Miami's poor complain that the program is being turned into a hiring hall for the middle class. Says Urban League Director T. Willard Fair: "The chronic unemployed are being left out of the system." Indeed, Fair's own $189,000 CETA job-training program is being investigated-for spending money on training programs for long-time...
...under the First Amendment took a drubbing in several cases. The message struck with the bluntness of a sledgehammer in Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily, which allowed police to raid newsrooms without warning to search for evidence of crimes committed by others. Although the court ruled that police must first obtain warrants, many commentators feared that local magistrates would not hesitate to let police fish through reporters' desks and notebooks, scaring off sources from confiding in the press...
...Amendment experts, Blasi points to a little-noticed unanimous decision striking down criminal sanctions against a newspaper for disclosing confidential state proceedings against a judge in Virginia. With sweeping language-written by Press Nemesis Burger-the court effectively allows the press to print virtually any government information it can obtain...