Word: obtaining
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Shamir's credo is that Arabs hate Israelis until proved otherwise. This belief impels him to seek concrete evidence of Syria's sincerity, something he can obtain only by moving to the peace table. His instinct is to delay, but he fears that he might squander the best chance Israel has seen to make peace. "We must start negotiations," Shamir said Friday, "and we want to start them...
...protect the elderly poor from the cost of health insurance by having the government pay the $29.90 monthly Medicare premium for people over 65 whose annual income is less than $6,620. But, according to the 1990 agreement between Congress and the Social Security Administration, in order to obtain the benefit, people had to apply for it. Families USA, an advocacy group for senior citizens, charges that 2.2 million people eligible for the program never made applications because the government didn't tell them about it. The monthly premiums continued to be deducted from their Social Security checks, saving...
Document specialists obtain clean driver's licenses and car registrations. In 1989 the FBI and New York City prosecutors cracked a scheme in which employees of the state Department of Motor Vehicles were taking bribes of $100 to write phony registration papers. Hundreds of falsely documented cartel vehicles, fitted with hidden compartments, moved drugs north from Mexico and returned south with cash...
...trial level. Some 40% of all death sentences are overturned because a federal judge agrees there was some constitutional error in the verdict or sentence. Much of the legal profession was therefore pushing for a compromise that would reduce such petitions while guaranteeing that indigent Defendants could obtain more competent attorneys when they were tried for capital crimes...
George Bush assumed that John Sununu had learned his lesson. After revelations about the White House chief of staff's misuse of Air Force jets embarrassed the Administration, the President ordered Sununu to obtain a lawyer's O.K. before taking any more government-paid flights. Bush was trying to reinforce an ethical standard he had long stood behind: senior aides must avoid even the appearance of improper behavior...