Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this reason, three of the bank's four mortgage executives are paid 50 percent salary and 50 percent commission to solicit in the real estate and business communities, Klapper says...
Although the representatives are supposed to solicit throughout the city, clearly it is in their short-term financial interest to work in more affluent areas...
Fundraisers use a formula to construct a multimillion dollar gift like the 35th reunion donation the whole class will make to the Harvard College Fund this year. First, the reunion gift chairs actively solicit two or three gifts of $1 million or more, which often requires cross-country travel to stroke and cajole prospective donors. With those gifts in hand, fundraisers nationwide go after donations in the $10,000 to $100,000 range. Other fundraisers, whose focus is participation, launch phone drives to pick up minor contributors...
Strict rules regulate the organization of reunions and fundraising between Harvard and Radcliffe. For classes 1963 through 1975, Harvard may only solicit male graduates and Radcliffe can only raise funds from female graduates...
...People don't want to say it's a competition, but of course it is," says Rosemary Resnik, a Radcliffe associate for classes and reunions. "We've both done much better with these recent classes because [Harvard] can solicit how they want and we can solicit how we want...