Word: solicitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Black faculty members express concern with the potential exclusivity of the University's sources for faculty recommendations as a concern. Departments often solicit names from colleagues in other schools, and an "old boys network" of a few high-level institutions can exclude candidates from lesser-known venues...
Businessmen solicit prostitutes. Muggers attack worshipers as they pray. Homeless mothers sleep in pews. Pilferers raid donation boxes. One man senselessly destroys a revered icon...
...duty. The President gave Secretary of Defense Les Aspin a July 15 deadline to draft an Executive Order formally lifting the ban and spelling out a detailed policy for doing so. Clinton pledged to enforce "rigorous standards regarding sexual conduct" that presumably would not allow a gay soldier to solicit sex from a straight...
...according to Professor of Sociology Theda Skocpol, faculty members used the opportunity to solicit an explanation of HMC's investment practices from Meyer...
While the Harvard Foundation supports the right of any student group to invite speakers whom they feel will provide viewpoints which are underrepresented at Harvard, the Black Students Association did not at any time, solicit financial assistance from the Foundation bringing Leonard Jeffries. Racial problems will continue to exist as long as students prefer not to deal with all sides of diversity. Racial harmony cannot be achieved by ignoring "random graffiti" or blindly condemning the perspective of speakers like Jeffries...