Word: request
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuomo's involvement in the New York races for lieutenant governor and the U.S. Senate. Cohen's distaste for the candidates' "dull" and "boring" nature and lack of "discernible oratorical flair" seems ridiculous in a discussion which otherwise exhorts substance over "flash" as does Cohen's odd, death-wish request that Cuomo support for candidates which are a "threat to him" and "challenge his hold on the bully pulpit...
Running the gamut from emotional to logical to sneaky and underhanded, Thelma's efforts to keep her daughter alive move lickety split across the screen and will leave you gasping for breath. In one sequence, she goes from resignedly making Jessie a cup of cocoa--a pitiful last request--to throwing the pot across the kitchen in disgust at Jessie's unwillingness to salvage her own life...
Also last night, City Councilor Alfred E. Velluci proposed an order that would request the City Solicitor to prepare a bill to be submitted to the Massachusetts state legislature which would bar non-profit institutions, like Harvard, from protesting proposed zoning changes in Cambridge...
...request of Burroughs Wellcome, Samuel Broder and his colleagues at NCI and other institutions tested AZT in late 1984 and early 1985 on AIDS- infected human cells in the test tube and found that it seemed to interfere with viral reproduction. Subsequently, they began testing the drug on 19 AIDS and ARC victims, and early this year reported in the British journal Lancet that the subjects had shown remarkable improvement. There was, however, at least one troublesome side effect: a reduction in their blood-cell counts. It was as a result of this early work that Burroughs Wellcome requested...
Mary Beth Whitehead looked pale and shaken. Minutes before, New Jersey Family Court Judge Harvey Sorkow had denied her request to regain temporary custody of her five-month-old daughter. Surrounded by reporters and cameramen in the courthouse lobby in Hackensack last week, she told them in a trembling voice, "I have three children, and two of them cannot see their sister. I don't think that's fair...