Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Later, the hijackers offered to free 20 of the passengers in return for fuel, but that request was rejected at Kuwait's insistence...
What to do? Like other experts, the task force, which was set up last September at the request of the Senate's housing subcommittee, concluded that the only answer is building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional...
...think the call for neutrality might be alittle excessive," Flynn said yesterday. "I think[the resolution without the neutrality request]would still have meaning...
...names of the Confederate dead alumni to the inscriptions in Memorial Hall, some faculty members are still calling for the names to be inscribed. Many are confident that the wounds of the conflict have long been healed and must be put in perspective; this is the third request to add the Confederate names since Mem Hall was completed more than 100 years...
Faculty critics of the request argued that honoring those racist rebels would be a slap in the face to Blacks and to dead Union soldiers. For many, 123 years after Lee's surrender, the Civil War scars still remain. And maybe they should...