Word: requesting
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...committees dominated the council's other business last night as well. At the request of the ad hoc committee on the president's search, the council voted to endorse a rally calling for greater student involvement in the search...
...inviting young Japanese to go "New Yorking" could attract 23,000 tourists and bring $73 million to the city. In print and TV spots, JAL portrays New York City as a nonthreatening, nonstop party town. Apologetic city officials say they don't have a record of the request. The incident has left airline executives feeling nostalgic about ex-Mayor Ed Koch, who would "always take a moment to pose for a picture with our people...
House Republicans were leak targets too. A 1986 letter from 16 of them, including Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich, asked Bank Board ex-chairman Edwin Gray for "internal memoranda" about the board's decisions on certain S&L matters that could have helped Keating. Gray refused the request and charged last week that the Congressmen had been "duped and used" by the indicted financier...
...social life. For them, it is an entrance into a support group of alumni. But other members say making connections has little to do with their decision to join the clubs. In fact, they say, clubs have policies concerning networking. At one final club, under-graduates are forbidden to request jobs from alumni...
Thus ended the low profile Israel had maintained in the gulf crisis at the request of the Bush Administration, which had persuaded Jerusalem that its silence was essential to keeping most of the Arab world united against Saddam. The tragedy on the Temple Mount, one of the most sacred sites in Islam, put Israel under diplomatic siege. Saudi Arabia decried the "brutal and savage attack," and Jordan denounced it as "racist and criminal." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused Israel of "brutal repression," while Syria . alleged that Israel actually orchestrated the clashes to force Arabs out of the occupied territories...