Word: soliciting
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...government will do it for us. The idea of a bunch of old white guys sitting around the Capitol Building doling out money for programs according to their warped idea of who is an American should provide adequate impetus for even the most private person to rush out and solicit a census form...
...drove Gore from fish fry to cattle show during his first congressional race, 24 years ago. Many years later, the business people who received TVA loans on his watch became natural sources of campaign cash. "I never called one of them," says Hayes. But he didn't have to solicit people like Scott Applegate, whose East Tennessee aluminum-casting plant landed a $2 million TVA loan in 1998. A year later, when Applegate heard that Hayes had left the TVA to raise money for Gore's campaign, he donated $1,000. "TVA stepped up with the loan," he said...
Since neither the steering committee nor the school councils have no policymaking power, Grassi argued that to solicit their votes on the matter would simply create an unnecessary delay...
Instead, they say the administrative workload of a large course's head TF spot scares many graduate students away--forcing professors frequently to solicit the graduate students they know best to help...
...University, the change in policy might give fundraising efforts a boost. Lewis has admitted that it is sometimes difficult to solicit donations from now-successful businesses that Harvard originally discouraged...