Word: request
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...physicians to the disaster site, one team assigned to identify the specific gas involved in the catastrophe, the other to study what had happened and determine whether a recurrence was possible. The $250,000 U.S. aid package, which included tents and food supplies, came in response to a request from Biya for assistance. Canada, Britain, West Germany and Spain also responded to the call, sending money and tons of medical and food supplies. Cameroonian officials, as unsettled by the onslaught of relief aid as by the crisis itself, quickly set up a national disaster committee. "Our first priority," announced Committee...
...more threatening visage. Tisch began buying CBS stock last summer and in October got Government permission to increase Loews' holdings to as much as 25% of CBS's voting stock. But Tisch, who now has a seat on the CBS board of directors, reportedly refused the company's request to sign a standstill agreement that would bind him to the 25% limit. Last week his holdings reached 24.9% of common stock (though less than 24% of voting stock), causing concern at CBS that Tisch may be readying a move to take control of the company...
...disruptive agent is Dale Kohler, 28, a computer whiz kid at the university who comes to Roger with a bizarre request: a grant from the divinity school to support the young man's belief that the existence of God can be scientifically proved by processing the accumulating mountain of data about the universe. "God is breaking through," he announces. "They've been scraping away at physical reality all these centuries, and now the layer of the little left we don't understand is so fine God's face is staring right out at us." Crunch enough numbers through the right...
...agenda when Vice President George Bush sat down last week with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was an urgent request that the U.S. help alleviate Egypt's burgeoning economic problems. Bush, who was winding up a three-nation Middle East tour, demurred. Pleading that he "didn't come here to cry poor mouth," the Vice President nonetheless declared that the U.S. was "facing very difficult budgetary times" and could not guarantee an increase of its $2.2 billion in annual aid to Cairo. But he did promise to discuss Egypt's needs with President Reagan. Said Bush: "A stable Egypt is vitally...
...speak. By Christmas his condition had so deteriorated that his family and doctors decided not to connect him to a respirator should his lungs fail. Schroeder lingered in a twilight state for seven months, until last week. Family members, summoned to his bedside, initially balked at the doctors' request for a CAT scan but finally agreed. The test confirmed that a massive stroke had destroyed most of Schroeder's brain, and last rites were given...