Word: request
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Individuals can also request advocacy from aspecific panel of Ad Board members in lieu of thesenior tutor or make a personal appearance...
Jewett also said he would try to inform more students about their right to request a hearing before the Student-Faculty Judicial Board, created last year to replace the controversial Committee on Rights and Responsibilities. The board, which has only heard one case to date, rules primarily in cases in which the Ad Board does not have a clear precedence...
...Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) that Lincoln was sound and should be exempt from a rule limiting direct investments in risky enterprises to 10% of a bank's portfolio. Though Greenspan wrote to the board on Lincoln's behalf in February 1985, the board turned down the exemption request. But Government officials who let Keating keep control of the S & L still brandish the Greenspan study when they come under fire. If Keating could fool a man as smart as Greenspan, the argument goes, no wonder he could take in five Senators...
...newspaper interview in which he appeared to support the Supreme Court's pro-abortion Roe v. Wade decision. Soon after, the beleaguered nominee met with Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a pro-life Republican who had the power to thwart the nomination. Hatch, who says his intervention came at the request of the President, presented Sullivan with his own list of pro-life- approved candidates for top jobs in the department...
After the guerrillas vanished once again, an exhausted President Cristiani rejected a rebel request for a United Nations-supervised cease-fire and declared that "the offensive is totally defeated." But as he was making that announcement at an army officers' country club, his words were drowned out by a bomb explosion. Although the President was not in any danger, the blast demonstrated that even he could not take his personal safety for granted...