Word: requesters
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...this kind of revisionist pabulum that had driven me from my job. I explained to the panel that months before, the Secretary's own chief of staff, Ann Bormolini, had at the request of her close personal friend, a ValuJet lobbyist, asked me what I was doing snooping into ValuJet. I told the Senators that in response to this unusual request, I'd written a stern memo outlining what the FAA and my office were doing about ValuJet. Did Pena expect us to believe he had no idea what his chief of staff did every day in the office suite...
...know very well what you mean," an FAA public-affairs official said in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, "but I don't think you're going to get that from us. Do you expect anybody here to say what is the value we give to human life and then sign off on it and be left open to ridicule for the rest of our lives?" The question angered the official, and the request was denied...
...industry begun the implementation of this recommendation in March 1995," when the NTSB originally made the request, said NTSB chairman Jim Hall at the end of the following month, "most Boeing 737s would have been retrofitted with an acceptable, short-term, improved recording capability by this time. The lack of FAA action to date is unacceptable...
...entrance to the Jade Temple, one sign said admission cost 10 yuan, another said 20 yuan. My parents insisted that it said 10 yuan in the guidebook, and they wanted to pay that. The lady selling the tickets had limited English, so MacDuff was supposed to translate our request...
...Pitt then ran me through an hour-long version of a process that would normally include a questionnaire and a request for my medical files, tax returns and financial-disclosure reports. He asked the Thomas Eagleton question about mental problems, which I passed. He asked the Zoë Baird question about employing illegal immigrants and not paying their taxes. I confessed I didn't know much about our gardener's citizenship status, given that I tape a $100 check to my door every month that is made out to simply "Rafael." It turns out I'm safely below...