Word: solicited
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Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 put in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...
Alarmed by the prospect of a studentless search, outgoing Undergraduate Council chair Guhan Subramanian '92 put in his two cents, sending a letter to Corporation member/search committee chair Charles P. Slichter '46 urging him to solicit student opinion in selecting a new president. University officials said that Slichter was indeed planning to seek student input, but that it would not be as important as Subramanian hoped it would...
...perfectly reasonable, but also perfectly extraordinary. Soviet officials used to chastise Americans for "interference in the internal affairs of the U.S.S.R." Now they solicit help in teaching their boss the ways of democratic politics...
...commitments. That leaves pitifully little to further such new goals as nurturing fledgling allies. Bush's request for aid to % Namibia, a new African democracy, is an all-but-invisible half a million dollars. Administration officials last year even went hat in hand to Japan and Western Europe to solicit aid for some South American countries that Washington is trying to wean away from economic dependence on the drug trade...
...Some editors, for example, simply assume that gay and lesbian journalists are too scarce to be important. "In this newsroom there're so few of them, they're not a factor," said Norman Bell, managing editor of the Tacoma Morning News Tribune. Others decline to acknowledge gay staffers or solicit their views for fear of seeming discriminatory or of violating their privacy...