Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...information and knowledge that we have about where he stands. It isn't like dealing with Brezhnev after years in the Kremlin. You knew where he was and felt you knew how to reach him. But we do have contacts, we can get our views there and solicit theirs. We have discussed specific issues between our two countries and have had some results from them...
...inexcusable, then, that Bok has taken no public steps to solicit sentiments from anyone who has not yet received an A.B. When Henry Rosovsky announced that he was resigning from the post last May, administrators made noise about setting up a committee with the Undergraduate Council to ask for suggestions and perhaps even allow for student interviews with potential candidates. None of that has come about. The administration has not even made an effort to publicize the ongoing search which would at least allow student to comment...
Russell said he "runs dances and runs parties at Stephen James [a Porter Square restaurant]" to solicit the smaller donations...
...Clark to the Interior Department had utterly rattled Washington. In naming McFarlane to be his principal in-house foreign policy adviser, however, the President followed a predictable course. Standing by as Reagan sang his praises ("a treasure of experience and talent"), McFarlane then stepped toward the TV lights to solicit reporters' questions, some-thing his predecessor never dared to do. He said, characteristically, that as National Security Adviser he would be an information "coordinator" rather than a policy "advocate...
Copying the long-established techniques of private schools, state universities are beginning to appeal to their alumni for donations. Penn State, for example, will solicit its graduates for $200 million during a fund-raising effort now in the planning stages. Public universities are also asking Big Business for gifts. Arizona State is using $ 12 million it got from private industry to bolster its growing engineering program. Indeed, state schools are also trying to earn a buck just about any way they can. Wisconsin hopes to cash in on the 325 acres it owns in downtown Madison, and the University...