Word: solicitation
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Last week, the city held the first in a series of six meetings to solicit public input into the city's overarching goals. And the City Council recently mailed a survey to all the city's residents asking them to identify important city issues and to say how city services could be improved...
...turning over a new leaf--symbolized by the decision to rename the project and divide it into separate programs. They say they learned from what had gone wrong during the initial phase, and add that before they give the go-ahead for the second "Human Resources" phase, they will solicit the input of system users...
However, the deal should not be seen as a cure-all. It covers only television and radio advertising expenditures, not other campaign expenses such as get-out-the-vote efforts. Although the latter may seem a nobler cause, the need to solicit funds would be no less corrupting. The enforcement provisions are incomplete: Once one campaign violates the deal, the other would be allowed to respond "proportionately," a phrase that seems likely to send the campaigns careening into a spiral of escalating counter-spending and accusations...
Allen Alias, the corporate communications director for Providian Financial Corporation, a credit card provider, says his organization primarily makes use of lists produced by credit bureaus. Although these lists may sometimes contain the names and addresses of students, Alias says his company makes every effort not to solicit individuals under...
...reach out broadly across the Harvard community--to faculty, students, staff, alumni, and friends--to solicit both general advice and specific nominations. Responses to this letter will be a critical element of that process," he adds...