Word: requester
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City Council approved City Manager Robert W. Healy's request to spend $2,500 to hire a consultant to explore the possibility of modernizing the city's election procedures, at a council meeting Monday night...
...Roberts' request, he and Murdoch held a brief get-to-know-each-other meeting at the Los Angeles airport in November. "After about 15 minutes we hit it off personally," he says. "And we both instantly saw that there may be some genuine reason to pursue this." At the end of the pursuit, MCI agreed to invest heavily in News Corp. stock--$1 billion now plus $1 billion over the next four years. In return, Murdoch will send his company's immense fund of grunt-and-grin entertainment, news and information through MCI phone lines into home and business screens...
...obstructing preliminary inquiries by altering his personal diaries. The five-term Republican senator now faces a full-scale Senate investigation of the allegations. Possible penalties range from an official rebuke to expulsion from the Senate. In a formal statement, Packwood said he will now "have an opportunity to request an appearance before the committee to discuss the matter, as I did not have a chance to appear before the committee at this preliminary stage...
However, the report openly condemned Fox's March 1994 response to a commission query requesting that Murdoch disclose exactly how much of the original TV stations' equity News Corp. owned. Murdoch's lawyers replied that the matter was "immaterial," prompting the FCC to repeat the request. Only then, and for the first time ever, did Fox explicitly disclose that News Corp. owned 99% of the Fox stations. Fox's attorney stated that even though the company had never disclosed this before, the overall level of ownership "has always been recognized." But the commission disagreed and blasted the attorney for trying...
...years following World War II, Britain's inability to reconcile the conflicting demands of the Jewish and Arab communities in Mandatory Palestine led the government to request that the "Question of Palestine" be placed on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly. The U.N. Special Committee on Palestine recommended the division of Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab...