Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, election-year politics had as much to do with the new budget request as the desire to establish credibility with Congress. Vice President Bush has lobbied hard for education increases, hoping they will translate into better showings in the polls. Republican candidates who once had to justify the administration's aid cuts can now breathe a deep sigh of relief...
...BANDONING its fruitless attempts to slash federal student financial aid programs, the Reagan Administration this month submitted its proposed education budget for Fiscal Year 1989. Calling for $21.2 billion in federal funding for education and for nearly $9 billion for financial aid programs, this year's budget request finally falls in line with spending levels supported by Congress...
Although the new budget request is a refreshing change from the Administration's past policy, the motives are suspect. This is a crucial time in the nation's future, when education is critical for restoring America's economic health. And with progress on civil rights and fighting poverty stalled, the federal government must provide aid for all low-income and minority students to ensure them equal access to college and jobs. With so much at stake, a college education should not have to rely on the political calculations of presidential candidates...
During the month they lived on the lot, the squatters asked MIT for permission to renovate the houses and move into them. The university denied their request and later evicted them from the land, making several arrests...
...Thesiger notes sadly that during his absence of eleven years "the age-old splendour of Abyssinia" had been fading. The Emperor's bodyguard wore khaki; the palace secretaries were in tailcoats. Thesiger met the celebrated author of Vile Bodies and found him foppish and petulant. He refused Waugh's request to accompany him on an expedition among the touchy Danakil. "Had he come," he adds menacingly, "I suspect only one of us would have returned...