Luckily, the mahout approved of the edible tree branches Mr. Hamm had procured.
Sometimes the residents or homeowners are worried about their allergies (though the trees are intended to help alleviate asthma and allergy rates citywide); sometimes they're worried that a branch will fall on their car (a call to 311 will procure a free pruning).
One established drug vendor has recently branched out to sell old fashioned coffee, which they say they procure directly from farmers, roast themselves, and describe in loving language that wouldn't be out of place in an organic grocery store.
Similarly, the pricing of items procured by the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) for DOD, as well as for other government military branches, takes place through direct negotiations with manufacturers through a Distribution and Pricing Agreement (DAPA).
I recommend that such a branch consolidate missions that launch and control satellites in orbit; that develop and procure space-related equipment; and that maintain our land-based nuclear missiles as well as our land-based missile-defense system (for example, to protect us from North Korean missiles).
"The forests are ransacked for the brightest foliage, branches of the pine, cedar, and holly are laboriously collected," he noted approvingly, "and the work of beautifying the quarters continue[s] as long as material can be procured".
Information was hard to procure.
"It's quite difficult to procure".
The school, which had branches at Union Square and Cooper Square, closed after state investigators concluded it had inappropriately received more than $1.5 million in tuition assistance and had used "false, misleading, deceptive and fraudulent bait-and-switch advertising as a means to procure, solicit and enroll students," according to a 1996 New York State Education Department complaint.
