Word: requester
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...April, the country recognized National Organ Donation week at the request of President Clinton. Considering how recently organ transplants became available, their use has grown dramatically in the world. However, with the establishment of Organ Donation week comes the need to assess the process's problems and the possible solutions...
There is always a marked increase after a public appeal is made on the behalf of an individual by the media. Donations increase as a whole, not just for the individual. Also, once request for organ donation became required by law on the part of physicians, donations also went up. Many families feel that they can take some good from an incredible tragedy. To force these same people to donate is to underestimate the generosity of the public in a grave way. Should the media make a greater effort, organ donation will increase to a level sufficient to stave...
...Bosnia. The move, approved in the House earlier this year, would be an affront to Clinton and the U.N. Security Council, which imposedthe arms embargoon the former Yugoslavia in 1991, hoping to prevent an escalation ofthe fighting in the Balkans. Senate Majority LeaderBob Dole, who at Clinton's request delayed action last week to await the results of the NATO allies conference in London, argued on the Senate floor that the embargo merely established a built-in military advantage for rebel Bosnian Serb forces. "We have an obligation to the Bosnian people and to our principles to allow...
...played any role in the removal of papers from the office of former White House aide Vincent Foster shortly after his 1993 suicide. It is unclear how the move -- a potential political powder keg -- would immediately be carried out. So far, TIME's James Carney notes, all committee requests for testimony and evidence have come jointly from the Republican chairman, Sen. Al D'Amato of New York, and the ranking Democrat, Sen. Paul Sarbanes of Maryland. (Only D'Amato has sole authority to issue a subpoena.) "The White House posture is that it's insignificant unless and until D'Amato...
...late April the Corporation the more powerfulof Harvard's two governing bodies rejected thefaculty's request to roll back the one percentreduction although it did approve the compromiseof a "soft...