Word: obtainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of Harvard's outside real estate holdings are used primarily for academic purposes, functioning as study centers for topics ranging from Renaissance art to radio astronomy. Scholars are able to indulge in the various institutions' vast resources--extensive libraries and art collections--provided they obtain an appointment...
...lawmakers left a large loophole for wealthy seafarers. Yacht owners can still treat their floating pleasure palaces as second homes if they contain a head and a galley (toilet and kitchen, to landlubbers) and sleeping facilities. Skippers can deduct the interest on loans used to buy their craft or obtain a yacht-equity credit line to cover the purchase of, say, a Rolls-Royce. "Aristotle Onassis would have loved this," fumes Republican Senator John Danforth of Missouri, a member of the Senate Finance Committee. "If we have to make choices in the tax code," he asks, "why would we want...
...them too, on occasions like St. Patrick's Day parades, but that is in part because the Irish pipes cannot be played standing up. Besides, they are not very loud. The Scottish variety is challenging enough, but Uilleann pipes are in a class by themselves. They are difficult to obtain, harder to maintain and nearly impossible to play...
...year old Mellon Fellowship program is designed to help junior faculty obtain tenure posts at their schools by giving them an opportunity to "demonstrate their scholarly potential," said University Marshal Richard M. Hunt, the program's director...
...study published last week focused on one 81-member clan. Fourteen members had been diagnosed with manic depression and another five with other mental disorders. Thanks to unusual cooperation from the family, the researchers were able to obtain blood from each member and then isolate DNA from each sample. Using so-called restriction enzymes, they "cut" the DNA into segments. When they compared gene segments from manic depressives with those from normal family members, they found a discrepancy in a region of chromosome 11. Their conclusion: a gene or group of genes in or near this region confers a predisposition...