Word: requests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...final clubs, the administrator listed in response; these are the spaces to which the Harvard College Pub will provide an “inclusive” alternative. He had tried to get the architects into more of the clubs, calling final club presidents a week in advance to request invites. Many of the presidents, notoriously averse to dealing with the College, declined.But some did not, and the group planned to visit at least one before the end of the night.“I’ll need a really stiff drink before that,” said the architect...
...whole collections - even an entire museum - as a single work of art. One of the 5,000 pieces he brought back, a bronze Japanese buddha, was so enormous that he built an elegant Paris residence around it. For years, Cernuschi allowed visitors to see his vast collection by special request. Before his death in 1896, he bequeathed the building and its contents to his adopted city, which made it a public museum. That Japanese buddha now reigns over a newly renovated Musée Cernuschi. After nearly a century of refining and adding to Cernuschi's acquisitions, plus a three...
...biologists alike have rallied behind a plan called Coast 2050. First drafted in 1998, it called for $14 billion in federal funding for the restoration of barrier islands, marshes and swamplands. But the money never came. In fact, the White House's Office of Management and Budget squeezed the request from $14 billion to $1.9 billion in the 2005 Water Resources Development Act, which is still awaiting a Senate vote. Governor Kathleen Blanco, in her first State of the State address after Katrina, tried to hitch the plan to the swell of reconstruction aid, asking for a cut of federal...
...negotiations between the two camps resumed. Another Miller lawyer, Robert Bennett, picked up the phone on Aug. 31 to call Tate. Bennett told TIME that the Miller camp had received an indication from a third party that it might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement. It took Miller's lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps a letter saying that if Miller and Libby were to have a talk about making...
...administration officials say, is to determine whether the White House can take any logistical steps to help American reporters and other journalists to gather news at a time when it is often too dangerous for them to leave their compounds. The officials say Schmidt's trip is at the request of the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalizad, but is supported at the highest levels of the White House. "We want to see if there's a disconnect between what people in the United States are seeing on their televisions and in their newspapers, and the reality on the ground...