Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...committee's report. Among other things, the bill would require the Federal Reserve to limit the circumstances under which bankers could question women entrepreneurs about their marital status. When banks turn down commercial-loan applicants, the institutions would be required to notify the companies of their right to obtain in writing the bank's reasons for doing...
...laws that ban discrimination in public accommodations to compel some private organizations to admit women. Similarly, the New York ordinance was written to apply to private clubs that are in some respects public. To be affected, they must have more than 400 members and regularly serve meals and obtain revenues from nonmembers "for the furtherance of trade or business." Four of the city's most prestigious men's clubs meet those criteria...
...reporting from Moscow for United Press International in 1969. "We spent a great deal of time covering dissidents," recalls Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief since 1985, "partly because no one else would talk to us." In that grim, pre-glasnost era, scraps of information could be hard to obtain...
...frequently traveled to New York City and Washington as Ashland's executive in charge of corporate lobbying. In 1983, however, the two men felt they had to blow the whistle on their employer: they told federal investigators that Ashland Oil had paid bribes to Middle Eastern government officials to obtain crude supplies. Before long, McKay and Williams were fired, and their comfortable lives began to come apart. Unable to find jobs in the industry, they filed suit in 1984 against Ashland, charging that they were unfairly dismissed merely for telling the truth...
...crude supplies, the firm scrambled to find alternative sources. In so doing, the jury ruled, Ashland resorted to bribery: in 1980 and 1981, according to court records, the company paid $49 million to government officials in Oman and Saudi Arabia and a government representative in Abu Dhabi to obtain oil. Ashland attorneys had argued that the payments were legal and were made to private consultants...