Word: requesting
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...blind date. The women have exchanged rings and, says Marge, "absolutely would not go to a party the other is not invited to." She adds, "My father, who is 85, has never been sat down and told. But when my mother died, Rose spoke at the funeral, at his request." Says Rose: "Being gay has never been an issue with me. I was always a civil rights person. That doesn't mean I've worn a banner or carried a sign. I've simply lived my life...
...total amount of money state agencies, departments and authorities could spend on consultants each year. Subsidiary provisions would also establish a method for these entities to gradually come into compliance with the new spending limits and would give authority to the state secretary of administration and finance, on request, to permit some spending in excess of the new limits. The proposed law would also require state agencies, departments and Authorities as well as the secretary of administration and finance to submit yearly reports concerning the state's consultant contracts to certain legislative committees and to the inspector general...
...proposed law would allow voters to register under a political designation other than "Independent" and in addition to the two political parties previously recognized by law (Republican or Democrat), if at least 50 voters request to be permitted to do so. It would allow any group to qualify as a political party under Massachusetts law if at least 1 percent of the total number of registered voters register to vote using that group's political designation, or if at least 3 percent of the votes cast at the preceding election for any statewide office were cast for a candidate running...
...higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount at the pump to meet the President's request...
After a 1968 sit-in, the college's Black Students Association won its present location in Lilly Hall, a campus building which also houses Smith's graduate school and school of social work. In the meeting Thursday, the administration denied the demonstrators' first request that all of Lilly Hall be turned over to minority groups...