Word: soliciters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...applies annually to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for funding of its 10 staff positions. But under the College report's proposals, President Neil L. Rudenstine would solicit funds from the University's ongoing capital campaign to endow funding for staff positions...
Three of the professors said they thought the faculty advisory committee to the University-wide task force did not adequately solicit faculty opinion...
...second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list of outside candidates as early as this week. At the same time, friends of Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of the highly successful Walt Disney Studios and in many ways the logical choice for the job, were busy making Katzenberg's case to anyone who would listen...
Today at least 40,000 street tramps sleep in Moscow's metro tunnels and solicit change outside its new temples of affluence. That is still less than half the estimated homeless population of a city of comparable size, such as New York City. But places like Kursky station have become overrun by these panhandlers. Some are tubercular. Others are covered with skin ulcers and body sores. The existence of most is sufficient to provoke the spleen of passersby. "Disorder, dirt and a total lack of care for others," says Vera Alexeyev, a housewife who has lived in the city...
...dozen soldiers purged from the army, according to relatives of the dead quoted in the London Independent. The officers had expressed doubts about the qualifications of his eldest son Uday to fill the post of Defense Minister. Before the Cabinet reshuffle was announced, some officers were instructed to solicit the opinions of the senior commanders concerning Uday's standing, and they voiced concern about his lack of military training...