Word: obtaining
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Bilbeisi's smuggling scheme, undetected by U.S. authorities, began with bribes to coffee growers in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to obtain beans not subject to tariff agreements. The coffee, available at bargain rates, was ostensibly for domestic consumption or export to nontariff nations. To move the contraband through Central America, Bilbeisi's agents, financed by B.C.C.I. letters of credit, paid bribes to truckers, checkpoint officials and port officials. The coffee was marked for delivery to Jordan or Syria but was routed through Miami or New Orleans, where it was secretly off-loaded. Former U.S. shipping agents who testified before...
...Most Americans were never beguiled by visions of a new world order and are more grateful for what was actually won than embittered by the failure to obtain what was never achievable. "We want so badly to be proud of our nation and ourselves," says Gil Rene, whose wife Denise was called to the gulf last October by her reserve unit three days after their wedding. "Well, it's over now," Rene adds. "We got the job done, all right? Let's move on. It didn't change the world, or world politics. It didn't change anything. They...
CAPTION: Is it morally acceptable for parents to conceive a child in order to obtain an organ or tissue to save the life of another one of their children...
...everyone involved has the same goal: to obtain an efficient and lasting highway system for Massachusettes. "Our goal is not to stop the project, but to make sure the project goes ahead in compliance with [the law]," says Stephen H. Burrington, the Conservation Law Foundation's attorney...
...result of the Rust decision. Such clinics frequently provide comprehensive prenatal care services to their clients in addition to abortion counseling. By depriving poor women of such services, Rust will increase the shamefully high infant mortality rates in urban and rural areas. Even if displaced women are able to obtain prenatal care under Medicaid from a private physician, the care they would receive would be less comprehensive and effective, according to a study by the Office of Technology Assessment...