Word: solicits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demonstrations stem from a dispute which has been raging all semester over political activity on the campus. An organization called the Free Speech Movement has been protesting a ruling by the administration that political groups not solicit funds or membership on campus...
...Radcliffe Government Association may form a "clearinghouse" to inform students about political causes which solicit their participation. The suggestion for the clearinghouse came at the fall session of R.G.A.'s semiannual Cedar Hill conference...
Moreover, Pickrick does not solicit business from interstate travelers, does not advertise in out-of-state publications, is not recommended by any motor associations or national groups (such as Duncan Hines). Said Pickrick Attorney William McRae: "The power of the Congress under the commerce clause has been almost as broad as the plan of Salvation. If you can compel a restaurant owner to sell to whoever calls on him, you can compel him to buy 10% of his food from a company owned by Negroes." Added McRae, in what surely must be one of the most surprising statements ever offered...
Suggestion boxes were once considered a joke, and some employees still treat them that way. Most managers now take them quite seriously, have lately started to solicit suggestions from engineers and supervisors as well as clerks and production workers. Companies accept some 30% of the suggestions, save an estimated $200 million a year from the ideas they take out of the box. Says Douglas Aircraft President Donald W. Douglas Jr.: "These ideas help us improve our competitive position through reduced costs." Ford is so eager for ideas that employees who win the maximum $6,000 award also receive...
Although London's West End streets have been more or less cleared of prostitutes, they still solicit outdoors in many areas, and indoors practically anywhere. Many ply their trade in cars, thus do not remove their clothes. Scotland Yard's Commander George Hatherill appealed to the traditionally hostile demimonde, urged "any prostitute who has been made to strip and has been assaulted" to call Shepherds Bush police station (telephone number: SHE 1113), where, he promised, specially picked officers would arrange to meet any informant "when and where she wishes," without fear of arrest...