Word: obtaining
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...comparison with other East bloc nations, Polish life was seemingly not all that bad. The average wage ($200 a month) and per capita meat consumption (152 lbs. a year) were surpassed only in East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Private hard-currency bank accounts were legal, passports were relatively easy to obtain and the state provided the usual panoply of Communist benefits: guaranteed jobs, free medical care, factory-sponsored vacations. But this was not enough. Poles were tired of standing in endless lines: for meat, flour, sugar and other staples. They were tired of shoddy, overpriced goods, when they could...
Chrysler for the second time this year is bumper to bumper with bankruptcy. Last June the company teetered for two weeks before its 400 lenders agreed to ease financing terms so that it could obtain $1.5 billion in federally guaranteed loans. Now Chrysler is asking for $400 million in new Government-backed loans. Without them, the company may not be able to survive the month of January...
...Constitution does not go that far. It prevents Government appeals of actual verdicts, the Justices ruled, but not of sentences. The decision, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, seemed to some experts to cut two ways. While it may comfort hard-liners by giving prosecutors a second chance to obtain a stiff sentence, its primary effect may be to further a movement toward more uniform sentencing that is backed by many liberals...
Under the new regulations, students with cars registered in other cities would not be able to obtain the off-stsreet parking permits required in many residential areas of the city...
Smock said the council hopes to obtain undergraduate and graduate scholarships for 30 Black South Africans. IIE sponsors...