Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meetings will be held this spring to solicit comments from the greater Harvard community about the University's intercollegiate athletic program...
...process of recruiting a number of other individuals who can offer a wealth of experience in dealing with AIDS in developing societies," the co-Founder and President of VISIONS, Vivek H. Murthy '97, wrote in an e-mail sent to various campus organizations to solicit conference involvement...
...this scandal does matter. The Clinton administration's eagerness to solicit funds may have given a foreign government a window of opportunity to influence our own. Clinton assured reporters that he did not know of the FBI's suspicions about the Chinese government, and that if he had been briefed on the subject, he would have made sure his administration was more careful in deciding who should be given White House access. F.B.I. spokespeople, on the other hand, have claimed that such information was never restricted from reaching the President...
...about this time there was a groundswell of opinion among a group of seniors (and underclass students filled with impressive forethought) who raised these very questions about the senior gift. As a result of their quick action, last week an alternative senior gift fund (ASGF) committee was formed to solicit funds for an escrow account whose donation to Harvard will be contingent on, according to the ASGF spokespeople, Harvard fulfilling its "decades-old commitment to achieving greater gender and ethnic equity in the Faculty." Indeed, while the University commissioned reports in both 1971 and 1989 recommending target levels of women...
...Clinton explained last week. She didn't actually ask Chung for the money as the price of admission to sit in on the President's radio address two days later. She wasn't "receiving" contributions on federal property; she was just passing them along. And she certainly didn't "solicit" them, which federal law forbids...