Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...panel also planned today to question Donald Maron, chief executive officer of Paine Webber, about the company's dealings with HUD. Wilson went to work for Paine Webber after leaving HUD and helped the company obtain HUD business...
After leaving the agency, Wilson invested in several projects that received lucrative subsidies from HUD and helped his employer, Paine Webber, obtain business with...
...suit filed by the A.C.L.U. resulted last month in a modification of those tactics. Visitors may now obtain guest cards allowing them to stay in a building for as long as two weeks. And housing agents and police have agreed to stop house and body searches. But the sweeps go on, to the relief of tenants. "It's so much better since the sweeps," says Delores Wilson, president of a tenants group. "Before, you could hear machine-gun fire all during the day." The danger is that as they search for a way out of the drug crisis, many other...
...include iron ore, manganese, bauxite, copper and nickel. The principal iron-ore mine began production in 1985, and its operation has little impact on the forest. The problem, however, is the smelters that convert the ore into pig iron. They are powered by charcoal, and the cheapest way to obtain it is by chopping down the surrounding forests and burning the trees. Environmentalists fear that Grande Carajas will repeat the dismal experience of the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, where pig-iron production consumed nearly two-thirds of the state's forests...
Officials at several of the schools included in the Overlap Group say tuition would be even higher than the $18,000 charged by some for tuition, room and board if bidding wars were being waged to obtain students who needed financial help...