Word: solicitousness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bush finally traded Pangloss for a panhandle last week, recognizing that humility is the only way to solicit enough money and troops to quash a quagmire at least as intractable as Vietnam. U.N. help in the colonization—ahem, rebuilding—of Iraq is an unambiguous improvement over the status quo, of course, especially given the haphazard and under-funded efforts until now. Bush’s coalition of the hoping-for-favors-later is no substitute for friends with real benefits to give. International troops and money, together with a timeline for an Iraqi constitution and elections...
Clearly then, KSG isn’t above political concerns, nor should it be. Self-interested behavior like working for profit and political posturing characterizes not just conservatives, but everyone. One readily observes that political parties, whether conservative or liberal, propose strategies in order to enhance their power and solicit campaign contributions in order to get their candidates elected...
Summers said that the ranking was not alarming because the University has not tried to solicit especially large donations in the past, but added that it may soon change its strategy...
...interview last week, Summers said Harvard also should work harder to solicit large, institution-shaping mega-donations, a category in which it has fallen behind other Universities. While the University continues to rank as one of the top fundraisers in higher education, its largest ever gift—$70.5 million from the Loeb family in 1995—was surpassed by 62 other gifts on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s all-time donation list...
...testimony before the court, David Okhotin said that when his brother called him from the airport to say he had been detained by customs, he told him that the officials had tried to solicit first a $10,000 and then a $5,000 bribe from him. David said he had urged Andrew not to give them any money or sign any documents without counsel...