Then in 2002, they lost an additional 6.4percentt, prompting universities to raise tuition and aggressively solicit donations in hopes of making up for declining returns.
But municipal officials and business leaders restructured the city's economy by aggressively soliciting corporations disenchanted with skyrocketing costs in Stamford and Greenwich, persuading many to move into town.
"Charities are aggressively soliciting donations around this disaster, and I don't believe these donations necessarily are going to be used for relief or recovery in Japan because they aren't needed for that," Mr. Karnofsky said.
"I was walking in the street in the middle of the day and found myself surrounded by a group of about 15 little girls, some as young as 5, who were very aggressively soliciting me for prostitution," he said.
Companies like Conseco and Penn Treaty aggressively solicited clients who were not in the best health at rates far below that of their competitors to win more business, according to former agents.
America's trial lawyers, seeing a juicy opportunity, are now aggressively soliciting whistleblowers.Jack Meyer, head of New Directions for Policy, a Washington think-tank, argues that more states should pass a local FCA to help clamp down on fraud in Medicaid, where prosecutions lag behind Medicare.
Election-finance experts reckon that the most immediate outcome of the ruling will be the expansion of joint-fundraising committees, run by the major parties, which will aggressively solicit large donations and distribute them to individual candidates and political action committees.
Haley Barbour, a former Republican National Committee chairman and an adviser to Mr. Bush, said the Republicans would aggressively solicit soft money to counteract plans by the Democrats and their allies in organized labor to spend tens of millions of dollars in support of Mr. Gore now and in the fall.
While only accredited individuals can invest in Regulation D securities, critics balk at the thought of giving brokers any room to aggressively solicit securities to unsuspecting investors (i.e. the elderly).
"These companies try to poach authors who are already self- or small press-published, aggressively soliciting them to buy expensive re-publishing and promotional packages that they promise will deliver better sales and exposure, or even a deal with a traditional publisher," Strauss says.
