Word: solicitation
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...basis of university governance. One person's idealist is another person's technocrat. One person's inviolable principle is another's stepping stone. Ideas become just only if ther community affected by them accepts them as their own. The role of modern administrators is not to impose principles, but solicit concerns and then convince the community that policies adopted satisfy those concerns are appropriate. No absolutes should exist simply because a self-perpetuating group of seven men determine the existence...
...mayor will appoint a special outside counsel to look into two allegations against Myerson: that she improperly used her influence to solicit a $53.6 million city sewer-renovation contract for Capasso, and that she abused her power by giving a job to the daughter of the judge who presided over Capasso's bitter divorce in 1983. During the divorce proceedings, Capasso's wife Nancy accused Myerson of "stealing" her husband. Records of the divorce action have been subpoenaed by the grand jury investigating Capasso...
...years ago, according to Kogut, the federalgovernment made a nationwide overture tophysicists at major universities to solicit helpon the Star Wars program. The petition, which nowbears the signatures of 6500 Americanscientists--including 15 Nobel Prizewinners--states that the signer will notparticipate in any Star Wars research...
...footsteps ahead of Colonel Dagoberto Godoy, a murderous former member of the Somoza military dictatorship and now a leader of the contras in their armed struggle against the ruling Sandinistas. The colonel, for rather complex reasons, has come to New Orleans to kill Amelita, his onetime mistress, and to solicit private businessmen for contributions to be used, ostensibly, to arm the contras. The figure he has in mind is $5 million; he carries a letter of recommendation from President Ronald Reagan...
...Apparently they [the chairs] were supposed to have names like Fred or Alice, but Master Kiely said that it would be a good idea to solicit donations from the senior common room," Mattei said. The names of the senior common room members who donated toward the project would then go on the furniture itself, Mattei said...