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...that afternoon he got a call from the White House congressional liaison office inquiring about his position on the budget plan. "Leaning against," he replied. His tickets were canceled. New York Congressman Gerald Solomon complained that Bush had telephoned him at his home at 6:45 a.m. to solicit his support and that Sununu made a follow-up call two hours later. "They're threatening me," said Solomon, "and they better not." Like Regula, Solomon voted against the plan...
Harlan, a philosophy concentrator from North House, said that the Review will solicit submissions from students and will also seek brief commentaries from professionals. He said that the journal staff plan to distribute around 2500 free copies in March to most of the campus...
...tells of a four-part plan to deal withPoland's second major worry--how to managelong-term economic stabilization. Sachs saysPoland must eliminate centralized planning,privatize state enterprising and solicit foreignaid in order to end hyperinflation and shortages...
Under Cyr's proposal, the city would donate land to the Affordable Housing Trust Board, which would work with neighborhood groups to solicit proposals from developers and decide what type of housing is to be built. Currently the board can only allocate tax money from commercial development, which is used to give "stopgap" loans to developers working on low-income housing projects...
Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 out in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...