Word: request
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from a number of other countries were not so great that they could not be worked out in the Security Council in one or two days. Certainly these differences were not so substantial that they justified a further escalation of the war. The Soviet U.N. representative was instructed to request an emergency session of the Security Council. However, as dawn broke on Feb. 24, the ground offensive of the multinational coalition began...
...committee also looked at the college-wide fasting request presented by Eva M. Silverstein '92, a chair of the Hunger Action Committee, which would ask students to give up their dinner on one day to send the saved money to the Overseas Development Network. The fast request, which was also held in the fall, would provide money for an agricultural cooperative in Zimbabwe
...Kremlin and asked me to come too. Then he explained: Several minutes ago, the U.S. Secretary of State had called the Foreign Minister at home and informed him that military action would start in a matter of minutes. Gorbachev asked that Bush be informed urgently of his request that the attack be postponed for a time, so that one more attempt could be made to talk Iraq into announcing its readiness to remove its troops from Kuwait. Baker told Bessmertnykh that the military action had begun. Missiles and bombs were already exploding on Iraq and Kuwait...
...most painful: a fare war. British Airways fired the first shot Feb. 9 with its plan to cut transatlantic fares for summer travel one-third. U.S. carriers responded with fare cuts of up to 50%, but U.S. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner rejected all cuts, including the British Airways request. The decision is widely viewed as retaliation for London's foot dragging in approving the sale of Pan Am's and TWA's London routes. TWA said it will be forced into bankruptcy if the sale isn't approved soon. Skinner permitted Pan Am fare cuts for domestic and international flights...
...that should take. Two days later, the other four members of the Steering Committee met and drafted a letter of apology, based directly on the conclusions of our discussion with Watson. After presenting our final draft of the statement to Watson, we made some additions and subtractions at his request, and he willingly signed it. Unlike Lai, I do not consider this treatment "fascist...