Word: solicit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school's Alumni Council convened for breakfast and dinner last Monday at the Los Angeles Hilton, just days after President Bok received an angry letter from the council's president, Dr. Paul Torrens, criticizing Bok's handling of the health school conflict. Faculty members say they did not solicit Torrens's letter...
Students who attended Thursday's meeting reported that Keenan said that by involving graduate students in the review, he hopes to avoid what he sees as a mistake of the architects of the Core Curriculum, who did not solicit undergraduate advice in the early stages of their review...
...officials planned to carefully solicit large contributions from likely sources and send mailings to former Harvard athletes. In the first year, donations were coming in at a good rate, and department officials expressed optimism about the drive. By 1977, however, the drive had stalled and various University officials began to worry about how it might hurt other University fund-raising efforts. In the fall of 1977, Athletic Department officials decided to halt the drive...
...advice of Steptoe, the still anonymous Lesley and John Brown then hired an attorney to solicit bids for their story, insisting that bidders keep the details-including the parents' identity -quiet until the baby was bom. A number of British and American publications submitted bids, among them the Enquirer and a representative of Publisher Rupert Murdoch (the New York Post, the Star and the London Sun). The three U.S. commercial television networks were asked to bid on North American broadcasting rights, but all declined. Finally, on July 9, the Browns accepted a high bid of nearly...
...many businesses will have to raise prices or reduce mailings. Says an official of Sears, Roebuck: "This is just one measure of inflation that is going to hurt everyone." Esquire magazine had planned to mail circulation promotions to as many as 5 million potential subscribers; now it may solicit fewer. Says Financial Vice President Louis Isidora: "It costs us as much to mail as to print the stuff We have a fixed number of dollars to work with. If postage goes up, something has to go down." Publishers fear that rises in second-class mailing rates will force some magazines...