Word: obtaining
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...Cambridge exemplifies the kind of treatment homosexuals often receive from the mainstream population, and from officials looking to be reelected, Noble says. At the time, all city councillors--including Wolf--opposed the plan for the hospital on the grounds that Noble had not gone through the accepted channels to obtain a permit...
Routine autopsies provided the tissue LeVay needed. All 19 homosexual men had died of AIDS. So had six of the 16 presumed heterosexual men and one of the six women. Although LeVay hoped to include lesbians in his study, he was unable to obtain brains from women identified as such. After careful examination of the brain samples, he found that the INAH-3 areas of most of the women and homosexual men were about the same size. In straight men this region was on average twice as large -- or about the size of a grain of sand...
...B.C.C.I.-brokered sale of F-4 Phantom jet parts to Iran from the U.S. offers a good illustration of the process. The deal starts when B.C.C.I. learns from its sources in Iran that it wants to buy spare parts. B.C.C.I. and its agents then research the supplier market to obtain the price of the materiel. Because U.S. restrictions on the sale of such equipment to Iran make this particular deal illegal, B.C.C.I. next provides a falsified end-user ; certificate saying the jet parts will be sold to Israel. The bank then opens a letter of credit -- a form of financing...
...around. When Bush and Gorbachev announced on Wednesday -- before any public announcement from Shamir -- that they would issue invitations to an October peace conference, it seemed like a classic bit of diplomatic arm twisting directed at the recalcitrant Israelis. Bush said he was sending Baker to Jerusalem immediately "to obtain Israel's reply...
...America is underscored in a report prepared by the Population Crisis Committee, a nonprofit research group based in Washington. The committee found not only that Americans have fewer contraceptive options than their counterparts in most developed countries, but also that contraceptive devices are more expensive and more difficult to obtain in the U.S. than in some parts of the Third World...