Word: request
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...Social Committee has $5000, of which $1700 is divided among the Houses and the Freshman Council to help fund campus-wide social activities on the request of the house committees...
...last November to minimize or even cover up the President's role in the 1985 Israeli arms sales. McFarlane had previously admitted helping draft a chronology that was, in his word, "disingenuous." This time he apparently went further: he confessed to writing a memo last Nov. 18, at the request of his successor, John Poindexter, that was deliberately phrased to "blur" Reagan's role. The memo outlined a way in which the President could plausibly deny having approved the Israeli shipments. If his later insistence that Reagan had given that approval is to be believed, then McFarlane knew the denials...
Mark Salzman was riding an overcrowded bus in Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, when he saw a passenger clambering aboard. The driver asked him to step off. The request was ignored, the door closed, and the bus pulled away with the stubborn rider sticking halfway out. Arriving at his destination, the man cheerfully paid half the usual fare and went...
West German officials, concerned the Iranians might spurn a request to help secure the release of two West German hostages in Lebanon, tried to mollify Tehran by explaining that West German TV programming is beyond government control. That, noted Bonn officials, was met with "limited understanding." The show's host, Rudi Carrell, first reacted lightheartedly to the Iranians' fit of pique, then contritely allowed that "my intention was not to annoy anyone...
While this latest offer is a far cry from the original student request, it demonstrates that undergraduates can influence the University's decision-making process. It would be unfortunate, however, if the Undergraduate Council's eagerness to send some of its members to a private meeting with Harvard's power elite obscures the need for the kind of meeting so many members of our community requested. Students asked for the seven men who run Harvard to explain some of the decisions they routinely make in the name of the entire community. And they also requested the opportunity to express their...