Word: obtaining
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Under the new program, the Housing Authority would obtain permission to bring more working and middle-income families into the 800-apartment development, which currently faces economic difficulties and crime...
...Alliance for the Mentally Ill, Weinerth and New York City activist Jean Arnold set up the clearinghouse operation in January 1990. Its efforts reflect more than concerns over hurt feelings or political correctness. A stream of negative images, advocates argue, makes it harder for recovering patients to find work, obtain housing or participate fully in society. "We're not language police," concludes Arnold. "We don't expect the word crazy to disappear. But we're hoping for the day when these stereotypes are as unacceptable as racist and sexist remarks...
...urged scientists to preserve the "freedom of inquiry" and to continue to conduct research creatively without compromising the need to obtain results as quickly as possible...
...problem, though, is that Clinton's vision of national service is self-contradictory. One the one hand, the president asserted in his campaign that the U.S. should "guarantee every American who wants a college education the means to obtain one." But he also insists on instilling an ethic of service, and selflessness, in young Americans...
Walsh--who was indicted on 59 counts of bank fraud last October for allegedly falsifying documents to obtain mortgages and finance his condominium ventures-- said he knew Bedinger as an independent contractor. Walsh called Bedinger "a very decent person...