Word: requested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...largest information and entertainment company. If the judge had granted Paramount's motion, which was joined by several major Time shareholders, Paramount could have pressed ahead with its hostile bid to acquire Time for $12 billion. But after 5 1/2 hours of hearings last week, Allen denied Paramount's request for an injunction to halt the Time-Warner deal...
...Mobutu. The Zairian President will be in Washington this week for meetings with President Bush and Secretary of State James Baker. Mobutu's role in bringing the Angolan opponents together may mute criticism of human-rights abuses and government corruption in Zaire. U.S. Congressmen, who are considering an Administration request for extended aid for UNITA, will also be eager to hear Mobutu's assessment of the chances for peace. The Zairian is expected to call on all outsiders, including the U.S., to cut off military aid to the combatants...
...fuss, SDI seems moribund. Despite appropriations of $17 billion over the past six years, there are no realistic prospects of deploying a Star Wars system for a decade. SDI has remained singularly unpopular in Congress, which has cut every White House request for SDI funding. This year Bush himself reduced the Reagan request from $5.6 billion to $4.6 billion, and Congress might slash even more...
...students will have a difficult time persuading the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to take such a step. According to Edith Ramirez '89, Spence "did not seem the least bit interested" when approached with the request for a Chicano studies department or degree-granting committee...
...There were a few [faculty members in Literature and Arts] who deplored the stress on methodology and would favor a return to 'important works' as such," the report says. "This tendency is related to the few, but insistent, voices that request the return of survey courses...