Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Adams removes Boggs from his starting position at third base. She refuses his request to be released from his contract and instead tells him to operate Fenway's Green Monster scoreboard...
Nunn thus readily agreed to a second White House request to postpone a committee vote while the FBI looked into yet another Tower problem. This time it was an allegation, surfacing in the Ill Wind scandal, that some officials affiliated with Unisys Corp., a defense contractor under investigation, gave money in the early 1980s to a Tower associate, apparently to arrange meetings with the Senator. The payment was allegedly made as a campaign contribution...
...largest PPV companies, Viewer's Choice (which reaches 5 million homes) and Request Television (more than 4 million), each offer customers a monthly program slate filled largely with movies. But the business's new boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed...
...Sinatra- Minnelli-Davis concert is still being tabulated, but will probably fall well short of 100,000. Still, the concert's packager, Showtime Event Television, is pursuing other big stars for PPV events, and industry executives are bullish. "We're building an electronic arena," says Jeffrey Reiss, chairman of Request Television. "The day will come when Bruce Springsteen will be playing pay-per-view at the end of his tour. We're betting on the future...
Many agree with the NRDC's basic contention that pesticide-residue limits need to be tightened. Says Dr. Richard Jackson, a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences, which is examining this issue at the EPA's request: "The food tolerances are set on good agricultural practices. The Government does not adequately address the impact of pesticides on children." The baby-food companies have already got the message. Gerber and Beech-Nut, for example, do not use Alar-treated apples in their products, and pesticide residues on the crops they accept for processing into baby foods...