Bloomberg and the the National Journal also reported that the for-profits have solicited proposals from three big PR firms that have done extensive work for the industry: APCO World Wide Weber Shandwick and Public Strategies.
In its first year, Computers for Youth has solicited more than 850 computers from companies based in the city and has placed 160 of them into the homes of low-income families in the South Bronx.
His hotel in Washington, D.C., just blocks from the White House, for example, has solicited the business of foreign dignitaries who visit the capital.
The offer follows a prolonged sales process for Gardner Denver, which had solicited a number of potential buyers since putting itself up for sale in October.
For decades Toyota has solicited constant feedback from workers on its production lines to prevent flaws.
Is it ethical for a candidate who has solicited funds to run for one political office to use those same funds if he decides to drop out of that race and run for a different office?
The organization, called the American Council for Excellence and Opportunity, had solicited donations from various businesses, including Wall Street firms, for a convention night party at the Rainbow Room in honor of the committee chairman, Representative Michael G. Oxley of Ohio, and other members of the committee.
A1 Torricelli Campaign Inquiry Lawyers and others said federal investigators had evidence that the chief fund-raiser for Senator Robert G. Torricelli, Adam C. Crain, had solicited illegal campaign donations from two fugitive businessmen.
The draft opinion would allow the nominees, if both agreed, to return contributions they had solicited for the general election campaign and limit themselves to public financing for it instead.
When he left the Party post, blue-chip corporations he had solicited for the R.N.C., such as Federal Express and the big tobacco companies, signed up with his lobbying firm, Barbour Griffith & Rogers, hoping to benefit from the good will Barbour had engendered in Congress.
