Word: soliciting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article missed the real substance of the Advocate meeting by failing to outline the many positive proposals which were passed. These proposals included decisions to schedule the meeting in the Lamont Forum Room on the 21st, to read many banned books and not just Rushdie's and to solicit the participation of all interested publications, organizations, professors and students. The explicit intent behind these proposals was to unite the Harvard community, including The Crimson and the Quarterly, in an affirmation of universal freedom of the press...
Tsongas' plan would bring more executives to state college boards of trustees and more college officials to business boards. The plan would also include a more aggressive effort to solicit community and private sector financial support for education. The program would also tie additional funding for state campuses to their individual performances...
...former computer operator and onetime Marxist who moved to the far right in the mid-1970s, LaRouche has been living in luxury on an estate near Leesburg, Va., where heavily armed guards watch for would-be assassins. His followers set up tables in airports to solicit contributions and sell books and magazines whose extreme views are disguised by innocuous titles like Executive Intelligence Review. Believing that LaRouche's goals justified his means, others borrowed millions from supporters, knowing the money would never be returned. Judge Bryan refused to grant LaRouche bail pending appeal, and dispatched him to an Alexandria jail...
Wright has met with House Republican leader Bob Michel of Illinois to solicit his endorsement of the plan. There was no immediate GOP support, however, and Wright was joined at his news conference only by four other Democratic members...
Guveyan said city administrators asked her to answer the line for three weeks, adding that she planned to solicit contributions as well. Yesterday she sat at a table in the City Hall lobby that she said several people mistook for an information desk, but she said posters and signs are on the way to make her station more permanent...