Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very aggressive goal of $40 million this year, it would be helpful if we could coordinate the following activities," said the memo to former DNC employee Martha Phipps. White House officials have acknowledged that they used events there to encourage and reward donors, but they maintain that no solicitation of money ever occurred at the executive mansion. It is illegal to solicit donations on federal property. But whether or not donations were discussed while on the property is of course not the point; it's clear that a connection was implied. And that's perhaps the most damning part...
First, some thoughts on the UHS consultants. These people were paid to devise the brilliant scheme of offering pizza and movie tickets to students in order to solicit their gripes concerning health services. What an ingenious approach! Who would have thought that students would respond to such sly enticement...
...fact Parcells is not the one whose behavior would strike an impartial observer as strange. He is simply changing jobs. He did not solicit the rabid loyalty of millions of New England residents, and indeed often seemed alternately bemused and irritated by the constant media attention that his position received. He did not seek to be either saint or quisling. Those labels were given to him by that most fickle of admirers, the American public...
...many Faculty members dispute Grimmelmann's conclusions, saying there is not much change in willingness to teach or in the efforts of the CCP to solicit proposals...
...suspect that schools try to deny their kids the help they need, and to which they are legally entitled, in order to save money. School officials counter that onerous regulations force them to spend more time worrying about potential lawsuits than about education. They also fume at parents who solicit bogus diagnoses of learning disabilities so their children will get more attention...