Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Last year when the council granted money to the ASA we specified it would be the last grant they would receive," Bramson said, saying that last year's council decided not to fund the group in the future because the association was not making great enough efforts to obtain outside funding...
Other methods suggested for controlling the lunchtime crowds included "branding students" and reinstituting a 1973 policy, which required guests to obtain tickets for meals...
...company called Infopet is selling a - computer-age tag: a microchip that is easily implanted between a pet's shoulder blades. The semiconductor carries a ten-digit code, which can be read by a scanner. When the code is punched into Infopet's computers, an animal's finder can obtain such data as the pet's license number, medical condition and, most important, the owner's phone number...
Traditionally, most Jews who managed to obtain Soviet exit visas went to the U.S. -- 183,679 over the past 15 years. But as part of his reforms, President Mikhail Gorbachev is permitting much freer emigration than his country has ever seen. One of the unpleasant side effects of glasnost has been the rapid rise of anti-Semitism and right-wing Russian nationalism, which adds impetus to Jewish departures. A bill now before the parliament in Moscow will remove almost all limits on citizens who want to leave the country. At the same time, citing rising costs of resettlement...
...other hand, if any of the three first-place teams can execute a sweep, it certainly would obtain a commanding lead...