Word: request
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That is not what voters would ordinarily hear from the White House during an election campaign. Presidential aides, however, stuck doggedly to just that line in trying to explain the concededly inexcusable White House request for secret FBI files on some 700 people, mostly low-level workers in the Reagan and Bush administrations but also including prominent Republicans...
...still refer to Hammer by his last name alone, at his request. He thinks it makes him sound more sinister. In the late '60s, when Hammer and all of his friends liked to think of themselves as dangerous, you could make him glow by calling him the Hammer, as in "Do you think the Hammer's phone is tapped...
...letter was not meant to threaten Challinor, Kessler-Harris said, but simply to request that as a woman in a dual capacity, Challinor rethink the issues related to the strike...
...council called for Harvard to sell its units to its tenants below market cost. Harvard officials rejected the request, and pointed out that the University already planned to do more for its tenants than any other Cambridge landlord...
...letter also reiterated the College's request that PBHA leave the University if the community service organization does not acquiesce to the administration's demands...