Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...First we humiliate ourselves to get an apartment. We humiliate ourselves hunting in the jungles of commerce for wallpaper, faucets, toilet bowls, latches. The sight of a Yugoslav lamp fixture or a Rumanian sofa bed brings fireworks to our eyes. When a child is born, we humiliate ourselves to obtain day care and kindergartens, finding nipples, crawlers, disposable diapers, carriages, sleds, playpens. We humiliate ourselves in stores, beauty parlors, tailor shops, dry cleaners, car-repair garages, restaurants, hotels, box offices and Aeroflot counters, repair shops for TVs, refrigerators and sewing machines -- stepping on our pride, moving from wheedling to arguing...
Reagan also plans to meet separately with a group of Jewish "refuseniks" who had been unable to obtain exit permits for Israel. Fitzwater said he was unable to verify a complaint that two persons had been intercepted by Soviet authorities on their way to Moscow from Leningrad...
...Pillsbury displayed the same penchant for pursuing a private agenda when he was in the Executive Branch. As Deputy Under Secretary for Defense, he was credited by some with initiating the effort to obtain Stinger antiaircraft missiles for the mujahedin. In April 1986, however, Pillsbury lost his job after he was suspected of leaking word to the Washington Post that the Administration had finally approved Stingers for rebels in Afghanistan and Angola. Although Pillsbury denies being the source of the leak, an Administration official familiar with the case says Pillsbury failed three lie-detector tests given by the Defense Investigative...
...center is officially dedicated to demonstrating the "evils of the doctrine of Karl Marx," and has long functioned as a conservative think tank. Its close ties to the Reagan Administration have prompted protests from faculty members who wish either to bring the institution under tighter academic governance or to obtain a divorce. Tensions between the Stanford faculty and Hoover flared last year over a proposal to locate the Reagan presidential library on campus. When the faculty senate asked that the planned structure be scaled back, Hoover Director W. Glenn Campbell angrily withdrew the project and announced it would be built...
Egar said Razo's family is willing to use all its resources, including partial equity on the house, to obtain Razo's release, but that the current demand is simply too high...