Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Companies that mine and use coal formed it with environmental leaders, and together they reached productive compromises to speed the digging and burning of coal. Similarly, Diebold's clients ponder the example of Pennsylvania Power & Light and Canada's Ontario Hydro. Before building a power plant, they solicit citizen volunteers to examine a number of sites and pick the one that seems the most desirable-and environmentally safest. Perhaps other corporations would be wise to join with real or potential critics instead of fighting them so hard...
...capped his policy of stifling student involvement when he asked the Core committee two weeks ago not to divulge any information even about the 38 courses that had already been approved by the group. The few students who serve on the standing committee or its subcommittees were forbidden to solicit opinions about proposed courses from fellow undergraduates...
...corporation. In fact, many members of Congress welcome the CEOs, soaking up the glamour associated with extreme wealth. In the 95th Congress, Senator Howard O. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) asked deButts to lunch to discuss public governance of the corporation, while Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) contacted deButts to solicit the business community's help on urban problems...
...telephone drive--which aims for small gifts to increase the number of participating alumni--is larger than in past years, Clifton said. Seventy volunteers each in Los Angeles and San Francisco will solicit contributions from their classmates starting in two weeks...
...spring of 1977, Epps said student representatives for Southwestern were not allowed to solicit students on campus...