Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capitol Hill, House Speaker Tip O'Neill rapped Brown's knuckles last month for lobbying too hard against a proposed $4 billion cut in Carter's defense budget request of $120.4 billion for fiscal 1978. But aside from that, Brown has turned out to be an excellent Pentagon advocate on the Hill, neither talking down to Senators and Representatives nor overwhelming them with facts, as McNamara used to do. Among other things, he moved quickly to reassure Congressmen in the face of warnings that the Soviet Union was rapidly achieving military superiority over the U.S. This might be Brown...
...primary stripping of the bill, of course, was done by the President himself, when he abandoned his request for the rebate plan. Last week the congressional conferees knocked out what could have been the most important benefit for business: a chance for corporations to take an investment tax credit of 12%, rather than the present 10%, on the value of new plant and equipment. The Senate had kept this provision in the bill, as an alternate to tax credits on newly hired workers, but House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman argued successfully in conference that the extra...
...response to a student request, the professor in charge of laboratories in Chemistry 20, "Organic Chemistry," has begun to look for replacements for several carcinogenic chemicals now used by students in experiments required for the course...
Adopting a patronizing tone, Nixon turns lawyer. He says his absence of motive precludes any criminal intent, but then Frost probably has not read the law on obstruction of justice. It is an unfortunate bit of condescension. Just minutes before, on the way to the taping, Frost, at the request of his advisers, had read the law. He surprises Nixon by attacking Nixon's knowledge of the law. Nixon fumbles, explains first that he has not really read the statute since his law-school days, then pulls back further when he has to acknowledge that the law was not written...
...fight and often simply running away from a ragtag band of Angola-based Katangese rebels. Now the rebels were on the run. The secret ingredient in the turn-around was mostly psychological: the presence of 1,500 elite Moroccan troops who had been airlifted in at Mobutu's desperate request. The Moroccans shamed Zaïre's 4,000 troops in the fighting area into showing a little backbone. This persuaded the 2,000 or so rebels and, presumably, their Angolan and Cuban supporters as well that the cost of winning a war against Zaïre would be too high...