Word: obtaining
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...source for The Crimson reports of the untrue allegation that many of the documents from the University that Professor Nesson and I have posted were marked "Personal and Confidential," this would suggest the University's ambition to obtain short term gains at the expense of others' reputations and its long term credibility...
Barak went on to obtain a master's in systems engineering from Stanford University. As is customary when an Israeli goes abroad, he chose a Hebrew replacement for his East European surname, Brog. Barak had the appropriately militaristic meaning of "lightning," but because of a speech defect that turns his r's into w's, he cannot quite pronounce...
...encouraging to have other schools succeed in these initiatives but I don't think it changed our strategy," Benko says. "We have to consider the circumstances here and the administration here and how we're going to obtain our objectives...
...federal government gave proponents of the medical use of marijuana a small boost on Friday when the Department of Health and Human Services, in consultation with the White House?s hard-nosed Office of National Drug Policy, issued new guidelines that make it easier for researchers to obtain marijuana. The department said it will now provide legitimate scientists with top-grade marijuana grown on government land on a "cost-reimbursement basis." The new government rules are far less than some researchers might wish -- no funding accompanies the new policy, evidently -- and they are certainly much less than what Californians voted...
...safer to promote than freedom. Students hurling rocks at the U.S. embassy in Beijing will not take time out to erect a statue of Liberty and shout pro-democracy slogans. Also, the government may hope to spur a guilt-ridden U.S. to grant concessions that it otherwise might not obtain; the Foreign Ministry has suggested that China's entry into the World Trade Organization would go a long way to ease the current tension...