Word: requesting
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...Katrina clanged like fire bells. Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, a Democrat, charged that the emergency response was slow because the National Guard is overextended by Iraq. Supplies of heavy equipment are down to 40% in Kansas, she said--equipment needed for disasters at home. "If you don't request" new equipment, White House spokesman Tony Snow fired back, "you're not going to get it." Then it turned out that Sebelius had raised the issue repeatedly since 2005--even in one long conversation with Bush himself...
...days into a hunger strike aimed at pressuring Harvard to influence negotiations over security guards' contracts, the University has agreed to honor the student protesters' request for a meeting. Earlier in the day, the protesters announced that one of the strikers had been hospitalized for dangerously low sodium and electrolyte levels...
...They made the request and we're honoring that request," said Bill Murphy, director of labor and employee relations. "We are definitely prepared to listen to the concerns they wanted to express in person...
...also receive a lot of requests from my readers, asking that I write about certain topics that they suggest. The subject of today’s column, for instance, was suggested in the comments section of thecrimson.com by a young man named Anonymous. I’m a little confused as to why he was so generous this time in proposing such a good topic to me, as usually Anonymous is one of my most outspoken critics. Another reader, “Jim from Lowell House,” sent me a request to write about the urinal...
...superficial way,” Petersen said. The UC plans to submit the list of grievances to Interim Dean of the Faculty David Pilbeam, Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71, and President-elect Drew G. Faust today, and Petersen said the UC will request that they respond within a week. Students at last night’s meeting said they would seek to gain student representation on the Administrative Board, the 35-member committee that examines undergraduate cases of academic and disciplinary misconduct. Gross said last month that he is considering undertaking a review...