At the time, he said, the railroad did not buy the land outright, but obtained the right to use privately held land.
I asked one former senior officer who had entered the job without a degree, but obtained two during his career, what he reckoned about the proposal.
In the past, the bureau has screened workers via F.B.I. name checks, but obtained a waiver from the law that requires the fingerprinting of federal employees.
Recently, international art dealers have made substantial sums selling hundreds of chairs, tables, carvings and prints designed by Le Corbusier and his assistants but obtained at knockdown prices from officials often unaware of their value.
IHMS health data, confidentially provided to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection but obtained by Guardian Australia under freedom of information laws, paints a bleak picture of deteriorating mental health in detention, particularly among children.
The Bradlees discount chain, which has declared bankruptcy, sold its lease back to the landlord, Vornado Realty, but obtained an agreement allowing it to remain in the building until March 2002.
The audit by the office of the Defense Department inspector general, not yet made public but obtained by The Associated Press, faults the Army for flawed testing procedures before awarding a contract for the armor.
Francis Jamiel said his company, Jamiel's Shoe World, had been rejected for loans by eight banks but obtained a government-guaranteed loan and expects to add a few workers to its staff of 10.
The convict in that case, Kenneth Biros, faces death by lethal injection on Dec. 8, but obtained a stay of execution based on his argument that Ohio's old protocol — which used the three-drug method — constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
This time he did not have to drive to Sweden but obtained eggs from a thriving colony on Green Down nature reserve, Somerset, where a record 135,000 eggs were laid this year.
In 1939 he was ordered to report to a Nissan plant in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo, but obtained a transfer back to Japan in 1941.
