Word: obtaining
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...course. It influences my feeling about life, but not with a view to the history books. One has a dream. The dream, not just for me but for a whole generation, was to obtain German unity and European unity. I always believed it would happen, but I was very skeptical that I would live to see it. I certainly did not foresee that I would experience it while in this office. Now the opportunity is here. I have never worked so hard in all my life. But I have never been so happy...
Until recently, authorities have been largely inclined to stay clear of pop culture or artwork -- areas where obscenity convictions could be almost impossible to obtain -- and concentrate instead on hard-core porn. Los Angeles prosecutors, by targeting materials that depict bestiality, defecation, sex with children and the torture of women, won all 26 obscenity cases they have brought since 1988. At the federal level, the Justice Department secured 120 obscenity indictments last year, up sharply from 26 in 1987. But the department's National Obscenity Enforcement Unit has tended to focus on nationwide wholesalers of the hard-core stuff...
Udall sold his house in a Washington suburb and moved to Phoenix, where for eleven impecunious years he fought unsuccessfully in the courts to obtain redress. Judges consistently held that the Government could not be held liable, even though it knew of the danger from radiation and kept the victims in the dark. More than 1,000 stricken miners "were sacrificed for cold war nuclear weapons," says Utah Democratic Congressman Wayne Owens...
...fund-raising drive in 1987. In the past year the Tulsa televangelist has laid off 10% of his staff and folded his cherished City of Faith hospital and medical school. In search of a more promising venture, Roberts decided to take a bold gamble and offer $6.5 million to obtain PTL's cable-TV operation, now known as the Inspirational Network...
...feel confident about this class that's graduating," Romano states matter-of-factly. "I feel confident that a lot of them will obtain positions of power and influence, but I don't feel that they're going to do a lot of good." The judgment sounds harsh, but it is a familar one and not without common affirmation...