Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST OF THE TROOPS who fought in Vietnam were like Ron Kovic, young, working class men who were either unable to obtain an exemption or, more likely, thought it an honorable or decent thing to fight willingly. The moral choice that more educated and wealthy individuals faced was whether or not to resist induction. For the most part, they did not go. Thus those who would be most prone to write of their war experiences never saw Vietnam: theirs is a literature of protest. A great silence lies over the fighting man's tour in Vietnam. It is not that...
...potentially dangerous-or feels that its hazards have been insufficiently analyzed-it can act to keep it off the market. The law allows the agency to issue an order prohibiting or limiting production of the chemical either indefinitely or pending further testing. If a manufacturer objects, the agency can obtain a court injunction simply by showing that the substance in question has not been adequately tested...
...Cambridge police spokesman on Thursday, the day after Fagone's directive was reportedly to take effect, said the city does not require demonstrators to obtain any kind of permit to operate amplifiers...
...system is so organized that certain desks throughout City Hall are said to be "owned" by a given ward. Let's say Johnny is a planner level two, a job he got through the 11th ward, and he wants a promotion to a recently vacated planner-three position. To obtain it he has to go through his ward committeeman, Richie Daley, the mayor's son. If Johnny has been delivering his precinct, Richie will bargain with whomever "owns" the planning job, and he may be forced to trade a plumbing inspectorship...
...chains and an iron pot in which the hands of serfs were boiled. Secretary Schlesinger was also shown a picture of Broadcaster Lowell Thomas, who visited Tibet in 1949. The country's rulers consider Thomas an "American imperialist" because he sought, on behalf of the Dalai Lama, to obtain U.S. aid for Tibet against the Chinese in the late 1950s. Also on display were parachutes and U.S.-made radio transmitters, part of the equipment used in the Dalai Lama's rebellion. Explained one guide in Chinese: "The Dalai's traitorous clique couldn't bear the successful...