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Word: requesting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrative improvement that has helped in the fight to eliminate deficits was a change in the way departments request new personnel. Five years ago, each department head would tramp into Rosovsky's office with strong arguments for small increases in staffing, arguments that were hard to refute or refuse. There was no way to pit them against each other or to put the proverbial big picture together. Under the revised system, each year at this time the department heads meet with Kaufmann and other financial officials, and plead their cases. Kaufmann says this set-up means that Rosovsky will...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Booking In Advance | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

Professors must solicit the Dean's permission if they leave the University for more than one week, and less than one week if their absence will affect scheduling. But faculty members who leave for a week or less increasingly have failed to request approval from Rosovsky first, the spokesman said...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Dean Alters Rules On Faculty Leaves | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...ruling Ivory Coast Democratic Party asked President Houphouet-Boigny to grant Bokassa asylum for "humanitarian reasons." Houphouet-Boigny agreed to this request in telephone calls from Bokassa's wife, Catherine, on behalf of her children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: France Denies Bokassa Refuge; Ruler Flees to Ivory Coast | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

...woman sitting next to me by a pool at a Santiago hotel one day was an American --a Marxist-Leninist, she called herself. I asked her to watch my belongings while I went swimming. "Cubans don't steal," she said angrily, disgusted by my request...

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

WASHINGTON--Two major oil companies told Congress yesterday they cannot endorse President Carter's request for a freeze on heating oil prices...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oil Firms Testify | 9/18/1979 | See Source »

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