Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...situation on Brattle Street is equally gloomy. The use of amplification by Cambridge street musicians is governed by a Catch-22-style clause in the Cambridge City Ordinance which states that a musician wanting to use amplification must first obtain permission from the DTP. Since the DTP stubbornly (and I mean with hostility) refuses to grant such permission, a street musician using amplification along Brattle Street risks harrassment, arrest, fines and permit revocation. [In my case, the Cambridge Police have repeatedly shut me down and threatened me with arrest when I've attempted to perform on the traffic island between...
...conjunction with next week's national Gay Lesbian Awareness Days (GLADS), Defeat Homophobia plans to tableat dining halls to distribute an educationalsurvey and obtain student signatures on a petitionsupporting the group's demands, members of theorganization said at yesterday's planning session...
...ballot, candidates go through aprocess where they fill out a resume form and canbe nominated by a group of five student and fivefaculty stockholders that includes Dean Archie C. EppsIII. If not nominated, candidates can obtain 100signatures of Coop members to be eligible for thevote...
...ranging from radio ads to subway placards, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is pushing hard to convince illegal aliens that they should take advantage of a "once-in-a-lifetime opportunity." Under a program mandated by Congress in 1986, they must move soon to apply for amnesty and obtain permanent-residence status. The deadline: May 4, though the Reagan Administration has extended by 60 days the period for submitting documentation...
Whites rarely go to black neighborhoods; in fact, until recently, whites had to obtain a permit to enter a black township. The visit to Mamelodi was attacked by Ed Cain, director of the right-wing United Christian Action, as "designed to promote Marxist doctrine." But in Smith's view it was designed to promote understanding. The visitors saw a township where many of Pretoria's black workers reside in tiny four-room houses under the nighttime glare of powerful arc lights. "It gives the impression that someone is watching them day and night," said Louis Fourie, a white participant...