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...California race between Democrat Phillip Burton and Republican Milton Marks. When Marks first flew to Washington to solicit PAC money, he ran into Burton at a restaurant. "I'm here to raise money to run against you," Marks proclaimed jovially. Of his 800 PAC solicitations, Marks hooked 100 donors, raising almost $100,000. Burton piously proclaims he will never take corporate PAC money. But he will take it from labor, progressive groups and conservationist clubs. More than half of his $450,000 re-election fund will come from such PACs...
...timetable given for investigation and resolution of the matter (thus the University could stall beyond 180 days, the limit set by the Office of Civil Rights for the filing of a sexual harassment complaint). There is no clause regarding the rights of both the harassed and the accused to solicit support from friends or advisors throughout the process. Finally, there is no provision regarding the resolution of cases in which a grade is challenged...
ITHACA. N.Y.--Cornell is "pushing rapidly" to solicit funds from the federal and state governments and private industry for a new biotechnology institute on campus, Provost W. Keith Kennedy said recently...
...drug. Last week a Lilly research vice president denied knowing about the British fatalities from liver disease until informed by the FDA in May. For his part, FDA Commissioner Hayes testified that his agency did not learn of them earlier because "we don't have the wherewithal to solicit information from all countries where a drug is used...
...down. Women who had "made it" economically also felt estranged. When it came to lobbying legislators, ERA supporters could be appallingly inept. In Illinois, a woman offered a legislator a $1,000 bribe. In Georgia, a state representative claimed that he had been propositioned in an effort to solicit his vote. And in Florida, pro-ERA workers banged on doors of legislators' homes at 7 a.m. to hand them literature, a state senator's driveway was painted with pro-ERA slogans, and the white facade of the state capitol was defaced with pro-amendment mottoes...