Word: requesting
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...said that as of last night, the University had not replied to the request for a graduate-student seat. She added that involving graduate students in the search will be a “challenge and opportunity...
...arrival provoked the keenest excitement. Not since Nikita Khrushchev flew in from Moscow to take a crack at détente 20 years ago has a state visit aroused so much exhilaration ... Teng's determination to modernize China's backward industry by the year 2000 led him to request tours of the advanced technology production lines for which U.S. industry is celebrated. During a 24-hr. swing through Georgia, he will visit the Ford Motor Co.'s assembly plant near Atlanta. His tour guide: Henry Ford II. Dinner that night at the mansion of Georgia Governor George Busbee will feature spinach...
...towns like Shelbyville, where a loose coalition of community leaders and school administrators have, for the first time, placed dropout prevention at the top of the agenda. Now they are gamely trying to identify why kids are leaving and looking for ways to reverse the tide. At the request of a former principal, a local factory promised to stop tempting dropouts with jobs. Superintendent David Adams is scouting vacant storefronts for a place to put a new alternative high school. And Shelbyville's Republican state representative, Luke Messer, sponsored a bill, signed into law by the Governor two weeks...
...have backed the Special Court's request to move Taylor to Europe-a place Taylor himself has said in the past he would prefer to be tried. The big donors are spending millions rebuilding Liberia and Sierra Leone and both understand the sensitivities of holding his trial in the region. The U.S. may have balked at the idea if it meant transferring jurisdiction to the International Criminal Court, which Washington does not support. But no matter where the actual trial is held, control of the case will stay with the Special Court, which Washington sees as a model for future...
...hospital beds useless the day after the quake; and cause about $70 billion in damages. "My previous director used to say he would immediately file two forms in the event of a major earthquake," says Kurt Pickering, spokesman with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. "The first would be the request to FEMA for a disaster declaration, the second his retirement papers...