Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, the youth program was in a similar situation and used more dramatic tactics to obtain funding. Program organizers brought the parents of children who participated in the program to a City Council meeting to show the support the program has among those in the projects...
...despite the fact that Putnam wrote that the report is declassified, and Huntington also wrote that he "secured its declassification under the Freedom of Information Act," Huntington has failed to answer my request for a copy of this report (and related material), and I have also been unable to obtain the report under the Freedom of Information Act. Indeed, the State Department wrote me that release of "one of the documents" I asked for (the Huntington Report) "requires coordination with another government agency." (This agency may be the CIA, for whom Huntington has consulted in the past.) Thus Huntington...
Added to the financial burdens are the increasing difficulties in obtaining films from distributors. "Besides the financial problems, with the recent consolidation, films are more difficult to get a hold of. The availability of titles has gone down, making it much more tough to obtain obscure titles...
...firms have subjected the Stoughton Hall proctor to sumptuous meals, trans-continental flights and first class hotel accomodations in order to obtain his services...
Then the partners discovered they were eligible for loans from the Small Business Administration to minority-owned companies. By the early 1980s Welbilt had become the beneficiary of an SBA program allowing minority firms to obtain federal contracts without competitive bidding. The once two-bit machine shop began winning million-dollar military contracts for Army smoke- grenade launchers and Navy pontoon bridges. Within a few years 95% of its business came from these "set-aside" contracts...