Word: requesting
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WOULD YOU ACCEPT THE NO. 2 SPOT IF BUSH OFFERED IT TO YOU? You always have to consider a request by the President of the United States. But in 2000, when I met with [Bush] in Pittsburgh, I said I wasn't interested, and I'm not interested...
...conference do not recall talking to al-Fekaiki. He points out that Bechtel, which won $2.9 billion in reconstruction contracts from the U.S. government, has set aside $25,000 to match, "dollar for dollar," employee contributions for Iraqi school supplies. "To suggest that any decision [on an N.O.C.I. request] reflects our commitment to Iraq is simply unfair," says Canavan...
...next day, however, he was shown a few North Korean items-original gouaches for propaganda posters, and some oil paintings in the best tradition of Socialist Realism. After his return to Holland, he received some 200 works on spec, rolled-up and unframed. Van der Bijl put in a request for hundreds more, then waited months for a second export permit. "They were worried that Westerners might make fun" of the works, Van der Bijl explains...
NATO responds with an offer of a small number of troops to be sent around September. Karzai pleads for a more immediate deployment. Britain and the U.S. request deployment of NATO's new rapid-reaction force created precisely for such contingencies. France's President Jacques Chirac vetoes it, saying the force should not be used...
...leading online services offer relatively straightforward controls. AOL and MSN have suggested settings for different ages that can completely block kids' access to, say, instant messaging or chat rooms. If kids want access to a blocked website, they can e-mail a request to their parents, who can in turn view a complete list of sites their kids have visited and set limits on how long they can stay online...