Word: requesting
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...years, ever since her mother passed away. Pincus, now 54, had helped him through heart attacks, a pituitary tumor and gall-bladder surgery. Two days before he died, he drifted into consciousness long enough to open his arms to his daughter, rock her in them and make one request. "Just stay with me," he said. That was their last conversation. Since his death, Pincus has tried to keep occupied. In the quiet hours, after a day spent teaching kindergarten and before her husband gets home, she sinks into deep sorrow and longing. "It's a hole, and it doesn...
...commission in Miami-Dade was supposed to meet this week to consider a Democratic request for a hand count there as well. But on Saturday, as the tedious process was beginning elsewhere, the Bush campaign asked a federal judge in South Florida to disqualify manual counts anywhere in the state and certify the recount already completed. Democrats quickly put out word that Bush had liked hand counts in Texas. Three years ago, he signed a law recommending them to settle disputed votes...
...understand personally that it is frustrating to lose presidential elections by narrow margins," Baker said, and telling reporters that both Richard M. Nixon in 1960 and Gerald Ford in 1976 put the "nation's interests first" and did not request recounts. Your turn...
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, these 400 students request that the members of the Harvard Corporation meet with members of the student body. Our deans continually assure us that if students play by the administrators' rules, we will be heard. Without access to the Harvard Corporation, however, we are not merely ignored--we are, in fact, invisible...
Rejecting her teacher's request for her to "dress up like a human being," the girl was forcibly removed by police, refused hospital treatment and imprisoned, according to Kavakci...