Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Turkish relationship in the wake of the upheaval in Iran. It also illustrates the deterioration and current delicacy of that relationship. Before the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 and the subsequent arms embargo imposed by Congress it would have been unthinkable for any government in Ankara to solicit a Soviet blessing for some thing like U-2 overflights. There is now widespread resignation in Washington that the damage done by the Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused a valued friendship. Says one U.S. diplomat: "People...
...commercial system. But of late many Chinese bureaucrats and factory managers involved in foreign trade have shown themselves readily disposed to partake of the myriad goodies that can accompany avid salesmanship. Officials who once would have rejected anything more expensive than a lapel pin now eagerly accept, and often solicit, valuable gratuities-everything from sophisticated machinery and heavy vehicles for their factories, to electronic calculators, cassette tape recorders, TV sets and even limousines for themselves...
About 20 to 30 students will staff the station without pay this summer, working with a $3000 budget. WHRB's usual operating costs are about $1200 per month. The summer staff will include a full-time salesman to solicit ad- vertisements, a job WHRB members are sometimes reluctant to take...
...Congress outlawed corporate contributions to candidates for federal elective office. It is still illegal for a corporation to make political donations out of its internal funds. But the Federal Eleaction Act of 1971 permitted the use of corporate money for "the establishment, administration and solicitation of contributions to a separate, segregated fund to be utilized for a political purpose." Following clarifying amendments in 1974 and a favorable advisory opinion by the FED in 1975, corporations by the hundreds began forming PACs. Today, over 800 corporate PACs use company funds to solicit "voluntary" contributions from the ranks of management and stockholders...
Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday he denied CARP access to buildings on campus because members of the association denied their affiliation with Moon's Unification Church at meetings with Epps and continued to solicit on University premises after being asked...