Word: requesting
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Yesterday, with time running out before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting final vote tallies to Harris' office, Palm Beach remained 800 to 1,000 ballots short of finishing its hand recount. The Palm Beach canvassing board then requested that Harris include its partial recount in her final tally, but Harris denied the request. The partial recount would have given Gore a net gain of 180 votes...
Cliff S. Davidson '02, a co-founder of the social group BOND, submitted his request last week, hoping to spend the money to pay prominent athletes to speak on homosexuality in sports...
...Supreme Court deflected the case from the desk of Texas Governor George W. Bush--who, if Penry's appeal had failed, would have been asked by Penry's lawyers to issue a 30-day reprieve, the strongest step the Governor can take under Texas law. Bush refused such a request in August when another mentally retarded man, Oliver David Cruz, was put to death...
...quotes for free on a wide variety of services from a network of suppliers. Register simply typed in a list of what he needed from a long-distance carrier, including two phone lines, a fax line and a toll-free number. Within a week, Demandline had auctioned his request to numerous suppliers, including AT&T and Qwest, and received a competitive bid from Cable & Wireless, which Register accepted. Just two weeks after placing his bid, Register saw results. "I've been saving about $200 a month with the new plan," he says. "That's substantial for a small company like...
Websites are bringing buyers and sellers together in a variety of ways, including cooperative purchasing and catalog buying. Some of the more popular exchanges use so-called reverse auctions to play matchmaker. Here's how they work: a prospective buyer completes a request-for-quote form, the exchange matches it with prequalified suppliers, and they submit a quote. Some exchanges let vendors see other bids while the auction is under way, and others reveal the winning bid to vendors only after the auction. Either way, buyers can choose the quote that best suits their needs...