Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conserving water by taking short showers, keeping bricks in their toilet tanks and watering their lawns infrequently. They consequently are using 35% less water than three years ago. "I will never again waste water," boasts Helen Davis of Sausalito. In many Marin restaurants, water is still served only on request...
...Premier's troubles began when he agreed to a request by the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party to amend Israel's conscription laws, thereby making it easier for Orthodox Jewish women to gain exemption from the draft. Orthodox rabbis believe that women should not serve in the armed forces, since they interpret the prohibition against men's clothing to include the khaki trousers and the UZI submachine guns issued to Israel's female conscripts. The law now requires that women serve for two years and men for three, beginning...
Civil liberties advocates were particularly pleased by the requirement that officials balance the public interest with the needs of national security when considering a request for the release of classified information. The effect of this provision will be to make appeals easier. Said American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer Mark Lynch: "This section is going to revolutionize litigation in the freedom-of-information field...
...that the Administration's diplomacy was on track, but it did impress upon them Vance's quiet re-emergence as the man Carter wants to be out front as articulator of American foreign policy. The impression was heightened the following day when Vance, at Carter's request, presented a major formulation of America's African policy at the 58th annual meeting of the Jaycees in Atlantic City...
Union leaders complain that far more is being asked of wage earners than of anyone else. One contentious point is Carter's request that top company executives restrict their salary increases to 5% as a symbolic gesture for rank-and-file workers to follow. Complains United Auto Workers President Douglas Fraser: "A 5% limit for people like General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy, who makes just short of $1 million a year, is no great concession to fighting inflation...