Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approved evacuation plan. As community opposition has grown, the facility has been the subject of legal and political wrangling. Last week a federal jury found LILCO and its former president, Wilfred Uhl, guilty of lying to state officials about Shoreham's progress in 1978 and 1984 in order to obtain rate increases to help finance the project. Uhl and LILCO were fined $22.8 million...
...telephone in the prison chaplain's office. Identifying himself as a bail bondsman, White called the sheriff's document-control center and got an accused murderer's case number and date of arrest. Then he phoned the district attorney's records bureau, identifying himself as a deputy D.A. to obtain names of witnesses and the prosecutors handling the case. He rang up the coroner's office -- this time masquerading as a cop -- and was provided with details of the murder. In short order White had pieced together enough information to provide lawmen with a credible "confession" from a prisoner...
...which one student trying to make it overseas called "basically nonexistent...no help at all," there are very few available resources to help with this decision. Even if undergraduates locate suitable programs, they still have to get an OCS-approved form outlining their proposal a few months in advance, "obtain various signatures indicating academic and administrative approval"--as the OCS Guide to Study Abroad so helpfully explains--and then apply for credit, which is hard to obtain...
...There were a lot of entrepreneurs waiting in the wings who would have paid substantial money to obtain this property," said Tandler. "Harvard did without this money to provide a service for the community...
First, to obtain the required series of federal and state permits and authorizations, various studies and projections had to be prepared by engineers and consultants. Buckley applied for the key federal document, issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in November 1981, then waited 14 months to get the license papers. It was also necessary to get a Water Quality Certificate from the Vermont department of environmental conservation. All told, permits or approvals were required from almost two dozen federal, state and local boards and agencies, and it cost some $200,000 to get them...