Word: requester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fear his unpredictability, Zhirinovsky has gone out of his way to show that he is "just another politician and not a crazy nut," says Mitrofanov. How exactly? "By asking for the petty favors all politicians want." In Zhirinovsky's case, this meant meeting with Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin to request some specific goodies. According to Mitrofanov, Zhirinovsky asked for--and got--"a new car with a flashing blue light [to zip past Moscow's notorious traffic jams], a new dacha in the countryside, some special health cards for his family and one or two loans for some close friends...
Marsden said the University will soon make changes to the health care options it offers in response to the mergers of several major health plans. But he said the committee, at the request of several faculty members, will attempt to preserve and expand options in the plan that offer physician choice...
...dean of the College that the matter should not be escalated into a complaint to the District Attorney but instead should be resolved internally and with a minimum of disruption to the lives of all concerned. I was not granted the courtesy of a meeting on this request before the Dean's Office and the HUPD reported the matter, and a criminal investigation of Itagaki and his roommates commenced...
...departure, good manners prevailed, and the pop diva submitted to an interview with the Budapest newspaper Blikk. The questions were posed in Hungarian, then translated into English for Madonna, whose replies were then translated back into Hungarian for the paper's exclusive. Shortly thereafter, at the request of USA Today, Madonna's comments were then retranslated from Hungarian back into English for the benefit of that paper's readers. To say that something was lost in the process is to be wildly ungrateful for all that was gained. "I am a woman and not a test-mouse!" reads a typical...
...Cambridge City Council also has previously opposed US Shuttle's request and is expected to pass a similar resolution at its next meeting, on May 27, according to Mayor Sheila T. Russell...