Word: solicitation
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...Banks can only develop in bringing together the liquid savings of an ever more numerous, ever more diffuse clientele. Many rivulets must be channeled to irrigate many users." For that reason, the Rothschild Bank, up to now the eleventh largest among French investment banks, will open branches and solicit smaller accounts. The money will be used on such Rothschild projects as a channel tunnel to England and high-speed trains. Finishing up his press conference, Guy de Rothschild cheerily demonstrated what he means by democratization. He and Wife Marie Helene, 35, attired for the occasion in a striking minidress, escorted...
There was another possible factor in the pair's release. In accord with their supervisors' instructions to remain in the background, the VISTAs did not help picket the downtown afeteria that VIDA had chosen as the first objective in its restaurant organization project. However Birnbaum and Ruhe did solicit funds for VIDA, and in their solicitation called several persons connected with the poverty program who not only emphatically refused to donate to VIDA but openly objected to the VISTAs aiding that group...
...that his life is all fox trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...
Phillips Brooks House volunteers will solicit in the Harvard houses and Radcliffe dormitories this week for blood donations for the spring Harvard-Radcliffe Blood Drive. Donations will be made April...
...struck the idealistic young Sherburne as all wrong and "destructive of a democratic organization." He decided to try to dig up money for N.S.A. elsewhere. He hired eight young staffers, told them he had just enough money to pay their salaries for two months, and sent them out to solicit funds so they could keep their jobs. Eventually, they managed to raise $400,000, including some $180,000 from the Office of Economic Opportunity, to coordinate a program for tutoring deprived children...