Word: requesting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...both congressional and bureaucratic shortsightedness. Normally after droughts or other natural disasters, farmers had got aid through the Farmers Home Administration. But that agency, run by the Agriculture Department, made its loans hard to come by. An applicant's credit record was scrutinized closely and his loan request reviewed by a committee of local farmers and FHA officials quite likely to know his real needs. These committees then kept tabs on a loan recipient to make sure he spent the money for the intended purpose. It was partly because farmers complained about the stringency of those rules that Congress...
Mary Jo McCullough, assistant senior tutor at Winthrop, said yesterday House officials and students may finally request a guard for D entry, but their consideration is "still in the discussion stages...
...this is quite a different picture. The obsequious journalists who so readily assumed that Nye's request was legitimate seem to have little in common with the hard-nosed reporter who only as a last resort stubbornly strikes up a contractual agreement not to print all he knows about a story--in return for additional information. How has this change come about...
Harvard, unseeded by request in the 16-team battle-royale, will face the winner of the contest between top-seed New Hampshire and Keene State Thursday afternoon if they get past the Bulldogs...
While the strikers will not attempt to physically block the entrances to the stadium area, Sirabella said they will hand out informational leaflets and request that spectators not cross the picket lines...