The senior official said the emergency budget request -- formally known as a supplemental budget request for this fiscal 2003 budget year -- will be sent to Congress later this week.

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Universal Aide and its director, Shirley Gremyachev, did not respond to a detailed request-for-comment message sent through its website.

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The White House - debating a request for 40, 000 more US troops to be sent to Afghanistan - warned at the weekend no more soldiers would be deployed until a political resolution was reached.

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But after making both the newspaper and pillow requests, we received two messages in our Conrad Concierge app mailbox: One flagged an error with our request, and another said our request had been submitted. (We decided to be optimistic.) You can also request to have a text-message confirmation sent to your phone, too.

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Thanks, Vicky, great article, but you neglected to tell folks that we are now Facebook friends (even as the fight de-escalated I sent you a friend request, and you accepted).

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Hundreds of public bodies, including local councils, can request communications data, including when and to whom e-mails are sent and phone calls made.

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Attorney General Janet Reno sent her request for a special prosecutor to the special three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals on May 11.

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Interpol also said an Incident Response Team was being sent to Mumbai at the request of the Indian police to ensure close international co-operation.

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