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...class campaign committees, steering committees, area special gifts workers, area class agents, area steering committees) will conduct scores of dinners, movie-showing sessions and telephone campaigns to personalize the appeal as fully as possible. Richard B. Boardman, director of special gifts, says that area agents will take care to solicit each alumnus for about the amount he seems capable of giving. "Contributors will be asked to respond based on the distribution of wealth," he explains, adding, "Your basic economics would tell us that there's not a bell-shaped curve of distribution of wealth, so people should respond based...
Released in 1974, Tekere went into exile, first in Zambia and later alongside Mugabe in Mozambique. Responsible for ZANU's fund raising and arms procurement as well as recruitment, Tekere traveled to friendly countries to solicit support for the war. China was the principal backer. When the cease-fire was finally declared last year, ending the civil war, Tekere emerged as his party's third-ranking leader...
...president asked Amy to leave the room and then explained. "Amy just does these things for fun. You don't think I would actually use them. I always solicit information from a variety of outside sources," Carter said, pulling two reports from his briefcase. "These on China were prepared by Marie and Tommy, two of Amy's classmates. They're rather insightful...
...Dropping the longstanding ban on physician advertising, a move ordered by the Federal Trade Commission. The old phrase directing doctors "not [to] solicit patients" was eliminated. So was the injunction against associating professionally with anyone who does not practice a "method of healing founded on a scientific basis." That leaves physicians free to refer patients to, as well as receive patients from, chiropractors, acupuncturists, herbalists, even faith healers. Says Todd: "Chiropractors are licensed in 50 states. We may not like them, but they are there...
From all reports, the Div School is serious about reform. Opening the steering committee to two student representatives, the school has also held several open hearings on the curriculum reforms to solicit student opinion. Most student involvement, and most of the changes, are centered around the school's largest degree program, the M.Div., which prepares students for the ministry, Joanne Thomson, an M.Div. student and former member of the steering committee, says...