Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...increase in the budget to construct two more medium security jails, but the legislators who visited Walpole say--along with the inmates--the root of the tension isn't overcrowding, but the attitude of the prison administration toward the prisoners' conditions. But the governor seems likely to ignore that request. Although Dukakis said Thursday he will appoint an investigatory committee, he will continue to push for more jails, rather than more programs--this is, after all, an election year...
...Cambridge citizen action group attempting to stall construction on the Observatory Hill athletic complex will request today that the city purchase the proposed building site from Harvard...
...letter that will be submitted to the Cambridge City Council the Quality of Life Committee of the Peabody School Council will also request that the council consider long-range plans for preventing future Harvard expansion in Cambridge...
...bill with pro-gay orientation could get through the House, it was this one. State Rep. Barney Frank minimized the moral issue of homosexuality by cautioning the House that the bill was not a statement of support for gay rights but rather, as he says, "a request from one group of citizens that they want to work on the same terms as everyone else." Work, mind you, not love. That will have to come even later. And the bill failed. Why? Will it pass in 1979? 1989? Why do they force us to wait...
...group is only informally connected with the Harvard-Radcliffe Gay Students Association (HRGSA), and the lesbian organization decided to request RUS money in part to establish a gay group without the male predominance that has characterized the HRGSA, Rabkin said...