Word: obtaining
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...Reason: uncertain fees. Because of a sweeping U.S. Government freeze on the general's assets, estimated at $20 million to $60 million, his lawyers maintained they could not be paid. Said defense attorney Steven Kollin: "I've been able to do very little because I need to travel and obtain a full-time staff of investigators. We've got warehouses of documents in Panama, but no one has been able to go down there and look at them." The prosecution promptly labeled the pleas of poverty "inaccurate and misleading." To try to break the impasse, U.S. District Judge William Hoeveler...
...sensibly, been luring seasoned executives out of retirement. Further, as required by law, the agency has been farming out most of the task to the private sector, where a growing army of appraisers, attorneys, property managers and real estate agents is massing to evaluate, manage and obtain fair value for RTC assets. These folks will, collectively, reap billions in fees from the RTC. But it may not be unreasonable to think that most of them will do a conscientious job for the taxpayer in return...
...before Silber can disregard Murphy's candidacy--let alone gain a place on the ballot for September's primary--he must obtain support from 15 percent of the delegates at next month's state Democratic convention...
...select children who were willing and able to take a gamble. They were brought to the stores, decked out in the latest spring fashions, given tips on modeling and sent onstage. The audience, including an invited group of prospective parents, got a chance to size up the kids and obtain information on the applications and processing...
Taylor believes that gang members share a grossly distorted version of the values mainstream Americans hold dear. The difference is that gang members want money and status faster, and are willing to kill to obtain them. Asked to identify his role models, one 14-year-old cited the cocaine-snorting protagonist of the movie Scarface and Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca. "Lee Iacocca is smooth and he be dissing ((disrespecting, in street lingo)) everybody," the youth explained. In some cases, parents encourage their children's criminal careers. Said one: "My momma talk about how proud she is of me making doughski...