Word: request
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UNIVERSITY administrators have a habit of pleading poverty, a reflexive response to every request. But this doesn't keep Harvard from coming up with money when it wants to. It's just a matter of priorities...
Next week as the House of Representatives again considers the current Aged Incumbent's request to give $100 million to forces trying to topple a regime he cannot stand, lawmakers would do well to contemplate the lessons of President Wilson's attempt to overthrow a government he personally despised...
Reagan resorted to similar desperation tactics last month to gain support for his unpopular, idiosyncratic policy. The day before the Senate voted on his aid request, Reagan's Administration--in the words of a senior Honduran official quoted in The New York Times--"deliberately exaggerated the seriousness of Nicaragua's recent border raid and pressed Honduras to ask for $20 million...
...boys in the White House deceitfully played up what was only the most recent of many such border raids in an effort to coerce the Senate to approve their aid request. They give millions to people trying to topple the Sandinistas, and then have the never to cry foul when the Sandinistas fight back...
Because of the climate of fear and hysteria the Administration has created, the Reaganites can expect the House to approve their aid request next week. While allegedly trying to bolster the democratic process in Central America, then, the Administration apparently has little respect for it here at home...