Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baseball player hits .300 but slobbers tobacco juice, gives fans the finger and can't deal with the hot-breathed lunacy of a nation's love. In Meeting Famous People, a country-music star is hunted down and sued, then jailed and beaten after he $ refuses a fan's request for a handshake. In the title sketch, an ordinary couple become celebrities, in a way that seems chilling and entirely possible, when PEOPLE magazine, the morning babble shows and a congressional subcommittee hold their marriage up for universal inspection. If Kafka were writing this spooky stuff, you would call...
...Almost simultaneously, say some Congressmen and agribusiness executives, the Administration quietly shelved a Soviet request to buy U.S. soybean oil for the first time. The Soviets offered to purchase 200,000 tons, worth $120 million, using subsidies extended to other buyers of U.S. surplus soybean oil. Says one agribusiness executive: "What Gorbachev wants to do is fill up his stores and put something on the shelves fast. A housewife who can't find cooking oil is in a hell of a fix." This expert insists that the White House has nixed the sale, and adds, "Gorbachev is going to view...
...request of the School Committee, the city removed carpets in the CRLS art center last December, where mold and mildew resulting from dampness had caused irritation...
...council member, I attended last Sunday's meeting at which the council considered a resolution which declared unconstitutional its previous request to allow ROTC back on campus. Never mind that there are serious problems with a legislative body assessing the constitutionality of its own actions in retrospect. There are enough questions involved with the manner in which the council proceeded to declare the resolution unconstitutional...
...before granting the request, Zobel graphically explained to Suzannne Moran the definitions of aggravated rape of a person under 16 and indecent assault and battery charges...