Word: obtaining
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...said that one of the biggest problems with the legal system is that if police obtain evidence unlawfully, the court has to turn the prisoner free, even if the prisoner is clearly guilty...
Cambridge residents say they are pleased a grocery store has located in this part of the city. In July 1991, another Broadway supermarket closed its doors after 50 years of service, forcing residents to journey several miles into East Cambridge to obtain food, according to John R. Pitkin, president of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association...
Although all of the study's respondents said alcohol was easy to obtain at local bars with fake identification,Wechsler said colleges could still limit theeffects of binge drinking on campus...
...documents and business reports. The Russian government, which once classified crop yields and factory output as state secrets, now routinely publishes those figures on the Internet to entice Western investors. Resistance groups in countries like Iran put information on international computer networks that agency case officers once had to obtain from underground newspapers inside the nation. Movements of nuclear weapons-related equipment can sometimes be tracked by monitoring the electronic bulletin boards of shipping companies. "The information is out there," says Henry Clements with Technology Strategic Planning in Stuart, Florida. "But you have to know what to look...
THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed...