Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raising small fortunes, $4 million to $5 million this year alone, from his network of Asian contacts. Two years ago, he made a smart landing at the Commerce Department, where, as a trade official, he cultivated a group of Asian businessmen. That put him in a perfect spot to solicit from them when he moved on to the D.N.C. In this job he was praised by Clinton himself for being wonderfully "aggressive." So it's no wonder that Huang was unlikely to police any questionable donations; he had arranged them. Last week several more dubious contributions set up by Huang...
Tampoon applied for grants and is trying to solicit more advertisers and writers this year so it can be dropped at doors in all undergraduate dorms, according to Co-editor Liz W. Schoyer...
...depends on the results of this week's elections, which were held at house dining halls last night and last until lunch on Friday. Names of the four men and four women who will help plan Commencement, solicit donations and organize reunions after graduation will be released soon afterward...
...assiduously dragged our packages from storage one way or another, settled into our houses and marched back to the Yard, our former stomping ground. But it was not the same: the cheery red balloons waving in the Yard were not for our welcome; nary a Baybank employee tried to solicit us for the no-fee-until-you-turn-19 savings account, and even the Spare Change men seemed more restrained in their singsong efforts, as if realizing that we were poorer and less idealistic...
...heart of downtown, and visitors can take tours led by people dressed as Confederate (or Union) soldiers. Letters to the local paper still rail against "occupied Atlanta," and a debate continues to rage about whether to take the symbol of Dixie out of the state flag. Want ads solicit old Klan outfits, burned Klan crosses and "other civil rights memorabilia...