Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Debts. If the request for a rehearing comes to naught, Mitchell will be the first U.S. Attorney General ever to serve a prison term. A friend of his told TIME that Mitchell had gone on hoping for a presidential pardon until last November, when Gerald Ford lost to Jimmy Carter. Mitchell has some investment income but is no longer allowed to practice law (he once earned $250,000 annually as a municipal bond lawyer), and friends say he is burdened by enormous debts...
Last week Avis' status was cloudier than ever. Originally the trouble began because ITT failed to move fast enough to sell its stock; by 1974 it still held about half of the total. At the request of the Justice Department, a court then named a trustee, a New York lawyer named Richard Joyce Smith, and charged him with the responsibility of selling off the rest of the Avis stock. Smith, now 73, began to sound as attached to the stock as his predecessors; for a time he refused to sell any shares, arguing that the price...
Watson said yesterday he agreed to stay on at President Bok's request, although he thinks it is "a great mistake" to remain on the job past his planned June 30 retirement date...
...Allen's cosmic nihilism. But Allen is no longer a pure nihilist; he is using this nihilism to affirm himself. Kierkegaard chose the story of Abraham to illustrate this metamorphosis: Abraham must sacrifice his son, Isaac (whose name means "laughter"), to fulfill an unknown Being's absurd and meaningless request...
...liberals view his anti-inflation policy as weak. The policy rejects not only controls but wage-price guidelines, and even public jawboning. It relies on business and labor leaders to discuss their plans privately with the White House before seeking wage or price boosts, but does not formally request them...