Word: solicitous
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...suspect that schools try to deny their kids the help they need, and to which they are legally entitled, in order to save money. School officials counter that onerous regulations force them to spend more time worrying about potential lawsuits than about education. They also fume at parents who solicit bogus diagnoses of learning disabilities so their children will get more attention...
...raising small fortunes, $4 million to $5 million this year alone, from his network of Asian contacts. Two years ago, he made a smart landing at the Commerce Department, where, as a trade official, he cultivated a group of Asian businessmen. That put him in a perfect spot to solicit from them when he moved on to the D.N.C. In this job he was praised by Clinton himself for being wonderfully "aggressive." So it's no wonder that Huang was unlikely to police any questionable donations; he had arranged them. Last week several more dubious contributions set up by Huang...
Tampoon applied for grants and is trying to solicit more advertisers and writers this year so it can be dropped at doors in all undergraduate dorms, according to Co-editor Liz W. Schoyer...
...depends on the results of this week's elections, which were held at house dining halls last night and last until lunch on Friday. Names of the four men and four women who will help plan Commencement, solicit donations and organize reunions after graduation will be released soon afterward...
...assiduously dragged our packages from storage one way or another, settled into our houses and marched back to the Yard, our former stomping ground. But it was not the same: the cheery red balloons waving in the Yard were not for our welcome; nary a Baybank employee tried to solicit us for the no-fee-until-you-turn-19 savings account, and even the Spare Change men seemed more restrained in their singsong efforts, as if realizing that we were poorer and less idealistic...