Word: solicited
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...putsch attempt in August, Shevardnadze has been watching from the sidelines as the power of the central government has drained away to the ascendant republics. His decision to rejoin Mikhail Gorbachev is likely to lend credibility to the Soviet President's efforts to reconstruct a union and to solicit Western aid for the ailing economy...
...solicit the tolerance of the Harvard community in allowing me to continue the intra-Christian community discussion in your paper regarding homosexuality. I am a deeply committed Christian, Lutheran campus minister and a pastor at University Lutheran Church...
...most thinly plausible paperwork documenting its origins, dealers generally leap at the chance to buy. Museums, those bastions of traditional culture, can also be compromised. Lowenthal points out that the Getty Museum, endowed by the late oil billionaire J. Paul Getty, has "enormous funds" and does not have to solicit donations to build its collection virtually from scratch...
Another bill, sponsored by the academics committee, reestablished the Freshman/Upperclass Connection, a council-organized resource to help first-years solicit advice from upperclass students...
...opponent, Richard Thornburgh, is a long-time political insider and a quintessential Reagan/Bush Republican. Thornburgh had all the advantages in this campaign. He had a large bank roll--his opponents had to solicit money in television commercials. He was elected governor of Pennsylvania twice. Then he left the state to work for the Reagan administration. And until Heinz's death, he was Bush's Attorney General. Thornburgh tried running a campaign on the coattails of the current administration. He actually said voters should elect him because he knows "the corridors of power." Bush personally campaigned for Thornburgh three times...