Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before I finish this letter, I need to ask a small favor, Martin. I wanted to know who has won the last 23 World Series championships since 1971. You see, the government shut down our last newspaper back then, and it's very difficult to obtain a copy of any newspapers unless one is willing to make the trek to a foreign embassy. Consequently, we're sometimes not completely up to date in our knowledge of current events...
...sense to expect to eliminate it by legislating it out of existence. While outlawing cigarettes in our workplaces and restaurants may make the air in some areas cleaner, and play to specious claims about the dangers of second-hand smoke, it also makes tobacco more mysterious, more difficult to obtain, and makes smoking even more of a symbolic act. Suddenly those secret puffs become not just a brief escape into adulthood, but, more significantly, an act of rebellion...
...shortage of minority Ph.D.'s coupled with the tremendous demand. has led to cut-throat bidding wars. Universities often obtain minority professors after great efforts, only to have them snatched away by rivals offering a better deal...
While this may not seem like such a terrible requirement, it has two significant flaws. First, of it is passed, almost all students would be unable to obtain a refund of their council "contribution." And second, the council would receive a windfall with which it could do as it pleased, thereby encouraging profligate spending...
...tried to get in touch with the Undergraduate Council itself, but was repeatedly greeted by an answering machine. So I waited a week and called the Dean of Students' office again. This time, I was told it was possible to obtain refund. I had to write two letters: one to the council, requesting a refund of $16.67, and one to the Dean's office for the remainder...