Word: solicitous
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...first year at Harvard, enterprising guitarist Amy R. Klein ’07 began a poster campaign across campus to solicit interest in a fresh and dangerous idea she had, an all-grrl Harvard punk band...
Ramaswamy directed each question at a designated debater from each party and then turned to solicit a response from one Republican and one Democrat audience member...
...Harvard College Democrats postponed a phonebank intended to solicit votes for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kerry from New Mexican voters...
...those who exercise the job of high command, and stressing the importance of seeking communal harmony among members of our international household, the Massachusetts Senator promises a leadership style that more resembles a kind of new-millennium Ward Cleaver: never abdicating his role as parent, yet ever careful to solicit input from his charges - in this case, the American people. (And, for better or worse, John Kerry is even as corny as the Beaver...
Affected or infected? Fiorina believes the public debate has been hijacked by political "purists"--like the abortion-rights activists at NARAL and the gun lovers at the N.R.A.--who find that taking the most extreme positions is the most efficacious way to solicit money, and also by the corruption of journalism by partisan blowhards like Moore and Limbaugh. And he has a point. In a world where Islamist terrorism and globalization-induced economic anxiety were distant clouds, single-issue fanatics had a clear field to pollute the public square. Scream journalism--Crossfire, Hannity and Colmes, the various "gangs" and "groups...