Word: requester
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...Ramsey for two hours Wednesday. Incredibly, the parents said they initially refused to grant formal interviews to police because they were "insulted" that they could be considered potential suspects and had decided that an interrogation would be "a waste of our time and the police's time." A police request for a fifth handwriting sample from Mrs. Ramsey, so that they can check it against the ransom note found in the home, has not been fulfilled...
...Administration is also agonizing over how to respond to Texas Governor George W. Bush's request to be permitted to privatize the state's welfare system. Some of the most influential players in the White House, including domestic-policy adviser Bruce Reed, are urging Clinton to grant a waiver that could make way for an important new approach to welfare. But Gore could suffer if the move antagonizes the powerful government-workers union...
...times he, or his bureau, has been less independent than he pretended, which has got him into trouble with Republicans on the Hill as well. First there were charges that the FBI went along with White House requests to investigate employees of its travel office. Then there was the matter of the 900 or so private FBI files on former Republican staff members that turned up in the White House. Critics say any number of FBI officials could have blocked the request for their transfer and didn't. Instead Freeh declared that he felt "victimized" by the White House...
...CANDIDATE] FRED THOMPSON TENNESSEE SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] His $6.5 million request to investigate 1996 campaign abuses [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] No longer a jinx against movie stars in the White House [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] John Wayne [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] That guy in The Hunt for Red October
...sorcerer himself, much to his disgust, is chased around a well by the lovestruck Lady Sangazure. Frustrated and furious, Alexis demands that Wells break the spell. Wells informs him that someone must be sacrificed to Satan, and it will be either Alexis or himself. At the townspeople's request, Wells leaves Earth for the fires of Hell, everybody goes back to his or her proper love, and everyone, we presume, lives happily ever after...