Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...academic commitments do not always leave them time to work, anyway. Gibson adds that students in some schools have more need for work-study jobs than others. The Business, Medical and Dental Schools use the least work-study money--partly because their students have high expected incomes and can obtain loans more easily than students in other graduate schools...
...always the most equitable way for the federal government to give jobs to the neediest students. The process through which schools apply for federal funds encourages "grantsmanship," says R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the University's office of fiscal services. Clever administrators can manipulate their applications to obtain large increases in their schools' grants--increases not always justified by the financial need of the students, Gibson says...
AFTER A CAMPUS PROTEST in 1971, police obtained a warrant to search the files of the Stanford Daily, an undergraduate newspaper. Since then, two courts have ruled that law enforcement officials must obtain a subpoena to search a newspaper office. Unlike a warrant, a subpoena gives warning before a search, allowing the paper to gather and submit only the documents, tapes or photographs specifically relevant to the case in question. Moreover, it provides the paper a chance to prove that it in fact has no pertinent material, as was the case at Stanford...
...believe that it is in America's interest to obtain a mutually beneficial and verifiable agreement with the Soviet Union to limit strategic armaments. Many Americans, however, still unhappy over our withdrawal from Vietnam, are afraid that other nations will view us as weak. Accordingly, they seek unwarranted additions to the defense budget and long for a return to unchallengeable U.S. military superiority...
Within this underground culture, the ranking item on the list of necessary reforms is women's rights. Women are still forbidden to drive cars, travel alone or obtain exit visas unless accompanied by a "legal guardian," a male relative. Polygamy remains a thriving institution. But behind those closed doors, many Saudi women are spoiling for a showdown. "We will fight them," a young woman says of the religious conservatives, "and we will...