Word: solicitousness
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...mail bulletins about the paintball excursion went out to solicit participants, CI members were asked to help “light up the forces of darkness with bright pink paint” while HSS members were invited to “a full day of religiously motivated, simulated violence because we can’t all live in Northern Ireland or India.” These slightly underhanded bulletins, though in good fun, reveal an underlying tension bound to exist between groups with such different approaches to faith. “It’s going...
...streets, teenagers conduct confabulations on motorbikes?two or three abreast?scarcely going fast enough to remain vertical. Rheumy-eyed old timers lean on fences in the grip of some nameless torpor. Silent saffron parades of monks glide by, footsteps raising little puffs of dust, stooping now and then to solicit alms. Time creeps by. You imagine some indolent imp has fallen asleep inside your watch and gummed up its works. Indeed, Luang Prabang might just be the best value holiday destination in Asia, if only because a day here seems to last as long as two anywhere else...
...says. “It’s about having a network and having someone to fall back on.” There are no meetings, no list of demands—just an e-mail list where members can ask to borrow equipment or solicit advice about what tunes would be the best to spin at a certain party. Being organized helps Local 1200 members get their sound out to a broader student base and perhaps diversify students’ musical tastes...
Since 1976, only Radcliffe could solicit donations from women who graduated before that year or offer these women positions on advisory or reunion committees...
...even with losing the exclusive right to solicit money from those females who graduated before 1976, one element of the agreement may improve Radcliffe’s bottom line...