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...legal request for prediction of documentsisn't a voluntary suggestion that, if the moodstrikes you, you open your top drawer and see whatjumps out," Jackson said. "There's a requirementthere that you look diligently...
Jackson charges Harvard University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur with denying her tenure in 1983 because she is a woman. Judge Douglas P. Woodlock has yet to hand down a verdict on her request for a tenured post at the B-School and $847,000 in lost income and legal fees...
...Good evening, Mr. President," he says. "Would you consider sending the U.S. Navy to escort my ships through the strait?" Pause. The President is well aware that the request is coming from America's biggest creditor. "Why, yes, of course," he replies. The Prime Minister thanks him, adding, "I am certain that your help will reassure our private investors enough so that they will buy their usual share of Treasury bills at next Tuesday's auction...
...referral and counseling service for women seeking the then illegal procedure. Moody was a minister in the American Baptist Convention, a confederation of congregations that was adopting its own high-profile prochoice position. In 1968 the denomination officially sanctioned abortions during the first three months of pregnancy "at the request of the individual" and during the last six months under special circumstances. Five years later, the A.B.C. became a charter member of the Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, a strongly prochoice lobbying network of religious agencies...
Mamelodi is a black township of more than 300,000 on the outskirts of Pretoria. At Smith's request, not only was he about to become its white minister, but also he and his wife Ellen would be its sole white inhabitants. The Afrikaners, among whom Smith had spent his whole life, have a harsh word for behavior like that: Kwaardwilligverlating , meaning, literally, "malevolent parting." Says Smith: "It isn't just a divorce. It means you leave someone with the intention of destroying them. You become an enemy...