Word: requester
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...students around the world are using the Net to chat in a mixture of Japanese and English that their parents would never understand. Shortly after the Kobe quake, Tomoji Ohta, a college student whose parents' home had collapsed, approached TIME reporters on the rubble-strewn streets with an urgent request: ``Please get on the Internet and notify the Baker Street Irregulars that all our members in Kobe are all right.'' Sherlock Holmes fans around the world were reassured. Indeed, some enthusiasts compare the Internet with the kurofune, the 19th century ``black ships'' of U.S. Commodore Oliver Perry that forced Japan...
Bruce said yesterday he had asked Hopke toreconsider his request and that he is still on thestaff...
Bruce said yesterday he had asked Hopke toreconsider his request and that he is still on thestaff...
Sword's attorney then rose to defend Sword.Canty's only request was for Sword to be allowedto serve his community service requirement withServe Canada, a social service organization thatSword had helped to found
...spending. Minority Democrats complained the proposals would demolish vital social programs. A subcommittee took up plans to cut $9.4 billion, targeting funds for housing, water projects, President Clinton's national service program, veterans' hospitals, medical supplies, diplomatic programs and technology grants, among others. The panel also rejected Clinton's request for $672 million to finance international peacekeeping efforts. Another subcommittee voted to gut millions proposed for new federal buildings. The GOP also pressed ahead with efforts to reform liability litigation and temporarily ban new government regulations. TIME Washington correspondent Nina Burleigh says many such proposals likely will not clear...