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...culmination of a decade of planning meetings--sessions at which alumni have rated each other's "giving potential"--as well as hundreds of telethons, dinners and publications advertising Harvard's capital needs. After prospective donors are identified, agents must convince them of the University's need and then solicit them for the actual gift...
...that the committee has faculty approval, Merseth says she will solicit various corporations and foundations for grants, adding that she is keeping her eye on a bill passing through Congress that would provide $400 million for programs to improve math and science education. Hopefully, the Ed School would be able to apply for some of that money, he added...
Strapped cities solicit gifts...
...more comely than those they have been wrestling with at the office. While prostitution is not illegal in Zurich, strictures on streetwalking are tight. It is banned in residential areas and near schools, hospitals and churches. In Niederdorf-Bellevue, the city's 700 registered prostitutes are free to solicit on the street only from...
...ladies in question have their way. A committee of 40 of the solicitors has asked Zurich's city council for a longer workday. The committee would like the streetwalking period to begin earlier, at 5 p.m., allowing the women three hours of voluntary overtime in which to solicit their "guests" on the street. Included in the committee's 24-page petition is a survey conducted under what must have been unusual circumstances. Polling 100 of their clients, the scarlet ladies discovered that after a day of trading pounds, francs and dollars, no fewer than...