Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roll call found just enough members present for the meeting to continue, and I was personally relieved that the many organizations who had requested funds would be able to receive them without having to wait for the next meeting after Spring Break. Yet the victory was sour. In the belligerent manner in which I was treated for asking that the council follow its own bylaws, the Undergraduate Council proved that it was neither accountable to its constituents nor its Constitution. An elected body which has reached this state has abdicated any claim it may have ever had to legitimacy...
...days after the House of Representatives rejected Reagan's request for aid to the contras, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega forsook his usual morning jog to sit down in a wellappointed sitting room next to his Managua office for an interview with TIME Correspondent Laura Lopez. Casually dressed and sporting a black Swatch watch, Ortega was relaxed and open, although half a dozen armed guards lurked just outside the door. Excerpts from his remarks...
Smith said he suspected Bailey's story after his repeated calls culminated in an outright request for money...
Even when books don't come in on time at the Coop--a real emergency for students--the libraries continue to drag their feet. If the books missing from the Coop weren't on the professor's original reserve request list--as to be expected--then the new request goes to the end of the line, and the books don't show up for weeks or months...
...statement accompanying the draft order, Reagan said he favored a negotiated solution with the leftist Nicaraguan government and that "approval of my request for additional assistance...does not mean that a military solution is inevitable...