Word: requesting
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...want to learn something new that enhances their overall lifestyle." With that in mind, the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica, ritzcarlton.com, employs a local "rummier" who-in a stimulating 30-minute course-teaches guests the difference between various dark, light, flavored and overproof rums. Classes are held on request and usually cost about $20 per head...
...paintings in 2002. He has said that he found them in his deceased father’s Long Island storage facility, wrapped in brown paper and labeled as “32 Jackson experimental works.” The Harvard study, conducted pro-bono, was initiated at the request of Alex Matter himself...
...substitute teacher in the classroom, people are coming out of the woodwork asking for stuff that they've bottled up." Gates himself acknowledged a change in atmosphere. "I would say what we have done, I hope, is create an environment in which the commanders feel open to requesting what they think they need, and then we will evaluate it here in the department to see what's available and how much of that request we can satisfy," he said...
...terms of troops - they're getting it. U.S. forces have been extended in Afghanistan at the request of the senior commanders there, and Gates said today that the DOD is looking at ways to speed up the arrival of troops destined for Iraq. A senior military official said that behind the scenes the Pentagon is preparing in case the new Iraq commander, Gen. David Petraeus, asks for even more...
...Bush Administration's efforts this week to get its NATO allies to contribute more troops and money to Afghanistan - by pledging more of both from the U.S. - are a reminder of mounting problems in Washington's ?other? war. Indeed, even if, as expected, the Administration's request for $10.6 billon more to beef up the Afghan security forces and reconstruction efforts sails through Congress, the additional funds are unlikely to arrive in time to help the Afghan security forces hold their own against the Taliban's spring offensive...