Word: requester
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...vote of 91 to 8, the Senate adopted a broad package of antiterrorism measures after the President and Republican leaders settled their differences over the plan. The bill includes some $2 billion for stepped-up counterterrorism programs, broadened wiretapping authority (a presidential request) and -- most controversial of all -- a limit of one federal habeas corpus appeal for most prisoners on death row (a Republican request). The House is expected to act soon on similar legislation...
...will pay the $270 million cost for the new 12,500 member U.N. rapid reaction force for Bosnia? Since Republicans in Congress balked at a U.N. request that the U.S. pay 31 percent of the cost, President Clinton has been seeking other sources of financing. One idea is for the U.S. to contribute equipment to the force instead of cash. And, much as the Bush Administration did during the Persian Gulf War, Clinton will appeal to wealthy Persian Gulf and Asian countries to help out with...
...building could be built." Nichols today called the report "a total fabrication," and said he had no knowledge of the Murrah building and had never been to Oklahoma City. The informant's story was included in more than 100 pages of documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News...
After the Time Warner shareholders' meeting last month, Tucker and Bennett aired their grievances directly in a testy meeting with company executives, among them Levin and Fuchs. It started badly: when company officials refused Tucker's request that they read aloud the lyrics of Big Man with a Gun, a song by the alternative-rock group Nine Inch Nails (sample: "Maybe I'll put a hole in your head/ You know, just for the f---- of it"), Tucker angrily walked out of the meeting for a time. Bennett's direct-as-a-bullet charges ("Are you folks morally disabled?") were...
Many people who know Bragg also note thediversity of his pool of friends. And, unlike manyBlack students in recent years, he didn'texclusively request Quad houses, which are home tothe College's largest Black community. Instead,Bragg was randomized into Currier his sophomoreyear...