Word: requested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glosses over the young Kennedy who, as counsel to Joseph McCarthy, relished hunting down Communists; the zeal with which he pursued Jimmy Hoffa; the campaign manager who cut down political bosses who did not toe the party line; the Attorney General who acquiesced in J. Edgar Hoover's request to tap the phone of Martin Luther King...
Lately, the mail has held quite a few specimens for Roth. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sent him some cockroaches found in Florida, with a request for identification. He looked at the specimens and decided that they were German cockroaches, but the USDA wrote back, saying that the insect was not behaving like the German roach. Unlike this common species, these cockroaches are attracted to light...
...They had wanted something up the stairs a month ago," he said. He said that the Levesque's request did not stem from the April 16 accident but would not say whether the boy's fall may have sped work to place a temporary barrier on the Quincy stairway. Coming up with a permanent solution will be the house office's decision, Christiano said...
Garrity, who presided over the two-week long sexual discrimination trial of Charlotte Walters this spring, yesterday made one of his last decisions in the case, in response to a request by Harvard lawyers...
...would-be mercenary or even an East bloc spy? Speer is apparently not telling, and the West Germans lack sufficient evidence to haul him into court. But back in Berkeley, an intriguing new lead has surfaced. Three months after Speer took the Star Wars bait, the lab received a request for more information on the bogus project. Postmarked Pittsburgh, it was signed by a reputed arms dealer with ties to Saudi Arabia. How could he have got the address? The only way, lab officials insist, was to have been in cahoots -- or at least in contact -- with the Hannover hacker...