Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refusal of several principle figures, including Gibson, to comment last week hampered attempts to obtain administrative response to many of Brown-Beasley's accusations. Thus most of the questions he has raised remain unanswered...
...surprisingly, computers are an essential part of the office's operations, and when Champion reorganized the comptrolling functions, he ordered Gibson to obtain the approval of Wyatt, then director of OIT and of Financial Systems and Information Technology, before proceeding with any new computer systems. Champion said last week he gave this power to Wyatt "because he knows more about that than anyone else...
...Hewlett-Packard, the official said, that although its machine had the necessary capability, which the Datapoint machine outline did not, he believed he could "make it do the job"--which the Hewlet-Packard official would require an efficiency rate of more than 100 per cent. An attempt to obtain Wyatt's additional comments on these claims was unsuccessful...
...short haircut, dark suit, narrow tie and starched white shirt was not a bank clerk but John Lennon, 35, former Beatle, sometime writer, and culture hero without portfolio. He was wearing the straight threads for a solemn occasion, namely, the successful resolution of his 4½-year struggle to obtain permanent-resident status in the U.S. After such assorted character witnesses as Gloria Swanson, Geraldo Rivera and Isamu Noguchi testified to Lennon's public spirit and artistic significance, Immigration Judge Ira Fieldsteel awarded Lennon the long-sought green card bearing permanent resident...
Other firms have been seeking ways to obtain cheap energy by harnessing the power of the sun or wind. The Boeing Company of Seattle is working on a project called Powersat, which involves assembling a nine-mile-long solar-heat collector in space; once assembled, it can ride along in orbit beaming the sun's power back to earth. On a more mundane level, Boeing has a contract with the Energy Research and Development Administration to develop a 10 million-watt power plant using heliostats-mirror-like reflectors that would catch the sun's rays and reflect them...