Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Comstock said last week "it would probably be difficult for RUS to solicit funding from other sources" should the proposal be implemented...
AMBULANCE CHASING. Most modern practitioners are too sophisticated to run after personal-injury victims themselves; instead, they hire private investigators, insurance adjusters and friendly policemen to do so. But some lawyers have been known to "solicit"?scout for plaintiffs ?in class actions...
...group of about ten freshmen began circulating a petition in the Union and the Houses last night calling for postponement of the Faculty's vote on the proposed Core Curriculum in order to inform students of the details of the core curriculum and to solicit student opinion...
...evidently slipped Washington Post Reporter Nancy Collins parts of H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power fresh from the bindery, life was pretty much back to normal last week. The network cameras had departed. Law enforcement officials had received no complaints of wrongdoing, and did not intend to solicit any. Collins seemed to have had her fill of notoriety and, at the end of a week spent mostly in ducking interviews, said: "This is all very nice, but I've got stories...
...Soldier's Field that night in 1969 intended it to do. It is not that the people who were on these committees are bad, it is just that acting alone, these independent legislators (many of whom also serve on the Constitutional Convention) do not have the resources to solicit student opinion or to fight the good fight when the administration makes a mistake. Their vote, even at those rare times when it is coherent, can easily be overwhelmed by the lopsided faculty-administration majority. They have no control over the agenda and so cannot take any initiative that does...