Word: requesting
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About the only thing that gnaws at Carew is his contractual problems with the tightfisted Twins. In 1975, the team turned down his request for a salary of $140,000 a year-modest by big league standards for a man of his skills-and the case went to arbitration. During the negotiations, Owner Griffith told the arbitrator that Carew was not worth a high salary because he was just a singles hitter. Never mind that he had hit .364; there were not enough home runs (3). The arbitrator naively accepted the club's reasoning and fixed Carew...
Such was the military-industrial reaction last week to Jimmy Carter's stunning and almost wholly unexpected decision to kill the Air Force's request for 244 swing-wing B-1 bombers. The B-1s were to have replaced the aging U.S. fleet of 330 B-52s-a few of which are older than some of the men who fly aboard them. In contrast, there was jubilation among liberals like New York Representative Jonathan Bingham and Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire. who have long argued that the B-1 is an outlandishly expensive dinosaur. Iowa Democrat John Culver...
...about when Kissinger himself did, and is still at it (PepsiCo has developed a lucrative business bottling soft drinks in Russia). Nathaniel Samuels, a director of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., asserted that one reason businessmen do not call on the U.S. Government for help abroad is that such a request often is "an invitation to trouble...
...commission sent their request for street listings to Archie C. Epps III, dean of students. Epps was unavailable for comment...
...inside text more blatant and kinkier, both Playboy and Penthouse have toned down the nudity of their covers. Guccione, whose Penthouse makes more money for news dealers than any other magazine, is concerned about the small-town Midwest distributor "whose wife plays pinochle with all the local wives." On request, Guccione supplies free "blinder racks" to any dealer so that only the name of the magazine shows...