Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...struck the idealistic young Sherburne as all wrong and "destructive of a democratic organization." He decided to try to dig up money for N.S.A. elsewhere. He hired eight young staffers, told them he had just enough money to pay their salaries for two months, and sent them out to solicit funds so they could keep their jobs. Eventually, they managed to raise $400,000, including some $180,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity, to coordinate a program for tutoring deprived children...
...addition to criticism, the report will include a bibliography covering the "omissions" and a proposal for changes. YPSL will solicit signatures for a petition backing the proposal at the lecture of March...
Once in business, the lab can solicit doctors with profitable come-ons. It may offer "all the tests your patients require" for a flat fee of $75 a month-and subtly encourage the doctor who orders 100 tests a month to bill his patients for tests at $3 to $10 each. At whatever price, a test is worse than useless and may have fatal results unless the technicians know how to run it and have the right equipment. On this score also, Dr. Sencer had bad news. More than 20% of test materials examined by the NCDC were found faulty...
Edwin M. Goodhue '67, manager of the tour, denied previously reported plans to take out a loan to cover the deficit. "We will selectively re-solicit certain individuals over the next eight weeks to make up as much of the deficit as we can," Goodhue said. The group has already raised $111,000 of the $126,000 budget...
...Regents will let him. "This situation isn't at all like 1964. Since then, our students have enjoyed the 'free forum.' They are free to assemble on campus, invite controversial guest speakers to talk, distribute literature, collect funds, solicit memberships, and support political candidates...