Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ortega's request, the Nicaraguan National Assembly voted to pardon Hasenfus, a process that took only a few hours from the time it was first announced by the Nicaraguan government radio station...
...Mike Barnes, D-Md., the target of the most hard-hitting of Channell's commercials last spring, said Sunday he would formally request on Monday a congressional probe of allegations that money diverted from the sale of U.S. arms to Iran was funnelled into such conservative groups...
...average night, orders get larger the later people request the wings, Mello says, because people ordering food tend to get drunker and drunker. One late night, he recalls, "everyone calling us up was incoherent...
Conceived, at his request, as a starring vehicle for Spanish-born Supertenor Placido Domingo, Goya was given a handsome $1.1 million production by the Washington Opera before an opening-night audience in the Kennedy Center that included Queen Sophia of Spain and glitterati from two continents. It is being broadcast nationally this week on PBS. So far, so laudable...
Despite this degeneration some level-headedness remains. As a testimony to rationality the Undergraduate Council, the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC) and a host of other organizations and individual students sent letters to the Corporation urging a meeting between the seven-member body and students. Even though the request was refused, the negative publicity desired by the activists was generated using wholly legal means...