The station rakes in its remaining $5 million in membership donations solicited off-air, by direct mail and telemarketing.
No chairman should be soliciting sign-off from the corporations that his agency is supposed to regulate -- and no true advocate of a free and open Internet should be seeking the permission of large media conglomerates before issuing new rules.
"I not only started doing very basic things like keep a running count, but I backed off soliciting men because they mainly took care of themselves and sent me stuff no matter what.
Mr. Kerry went off the campaign trail for four days to review a half-dozen proposed acceptance speeches he solicited from various quarters.
Witness the recent uproar when The Washington Post solicited lobbyists for $25,000 to $250,000 to sponsor off-the-record "salons" where they could schmooze with government officials and Post journalists at the publisher's home.
"Do they want to use that space to promote magazine subscriptions?" Ziff-Davis has been soliciting subscriptions off of the Internet since 1996, Mr. Sutton said, when subscriptions to the company's Yahoo!
There are lessons to be learned here, people: there are better ways to spend taxpayer dollars than sending cops to solicit sex off Craigslist, and strippers have constitutional rights, too.
Were solicited to donate.
That's because he doesn't show up until the episode and the season's devastating final scene, hanging out in his parking booth as ever, but now taking more and more calls soliciting him for off-the-books criminal activity – all the better to provide a nest egg for his beloved granddaughter Kaylie.
Jimmy K. Meng, once a Queens assemblyman, admitted in court last month that he'd solicited $80,000 to help a friend get off lightly in a criminal case.
They quickly pulled together their meager savings, solicited donations of medical supplies and took off for Sri Lanka, where they wound up living for the next 14 months.
