Word: obtaining
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Stephanie Atkinson, who said she was recently discharged from the U.S. Army under "other than honorable circumstances" for her request to obtain conscientious objector status, described her experience with the military to the audience of more than 150 people...
Bush must not be allowed to derail the sanctions policy by using the Security Council resolution to obtain war powers from Congress. Of course the U.N. resolution passed; the signatories had little or nothing to lose...
...that, along with Hungarians, they are relatively free to travel. Not so for others: although the Iron Curtain has crumbled along the entire length of the old East-West divide, many East Europeans find their freedom of movement as curtailed as ever. It is no longer a question of obtaining a passport and an exit permit from a suspicious communist regime. Now the problem for Poles, Bulgarians and Romanians is to obtain visas to the West or even permits to visit one of the other countries in Eastern Europe. Says Andrzej Misiok, a Pole seeking a visa to Greece...
...second stage will include 11 of theoriginal college and 24 additional schools, Brewersaid. Researchers hope to obtain more specificinformation about which campus demographic groupsare most susceptible to the AIDS virus, Brewersaid...
Much of the information is frighteningly easy to obtain. A guide published by the Quill Corp. of Lincolnshire offers public-domain prospecting tips for listmakers. Among other things, it suggests taking a look at marriage licenses, birth certificates, voter registrations, sporting and business licenses and the membership rolls of schools, churches and civic organizations. Quill advises that these lists can often be obtained through local government offices...