Word: solicitousness
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...advantages purported in building the Gibraltar Tunnel include increases in trade and cooperation as well as development of communications. But attempts by both governments to solicit part of an estimated $10 billion budget from the European Union are not reassuring. Since the completion of the English Channel tunnel, shares of stock that funded the project lost a great percentage of their value and operator Eurotunnel is limping with minimal hope that freight and passenger train traffic will increase...
...campaign sponsored a contest that gave contributors of as little as $5 a chance to compete for dinner with the candidate. And, borrowing a move from the social networking sites, the Obama operation has made it possible for supporters to set up personal fundraising webpages that allow them to solicit their family and friends for contributions on behalf of the campaign. According to Obama aides, at least 10,000 supporters now host their own pages...
...ground again when an hour-long commercial entitled “Case for the College,” read by Pusey, hit the radio airwaves in March of 1958. According to the Boston Sunday Herald, this marked the first time that a college had run a commercial to solicit funds. In addition to being broadcast nationwide, the piece was carried by stations in Canada, Ecuador, Korea, the United Kingdom, China and beyond...
...President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 opened the proceedings yesterday with a reference to the e-mail that Interim President Derek C. Bok sent to undergraduates this week in which he pledged to solicit opinions on the prospect of changing the calendar...
...writing to solicit your views on the issue of University calendar reform and to apprise you of recent developments regarding this subject...