Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact sheet distributed to reporters said Bushwould ask for $100 million in federal funds tomatch private donations to the foundation...
...sure that if you go to a bank and ask for $10,700,000, they will ask you immediately how you are going to pay that loan back," said Councillor Saundra Graham...
Killu Tyugu, 21, a thoughtful Soviet college student, remembers when the rector of Tartu State University in Estonia asked if anyone wanted to go to America. "Everyone laughed and said, 'He is a humorous man.' We didn't believe him," says Tyugu, a molecular-biology major. "But when he went on to ask, 'Who would like to apply for an exchange program?' I thought, Why not take a risk?" This autumn Tyugu is enrolled at Ohio's Oberlin College, while 55 of her Soviet peers are at 25 other liberal-arts colleges in eight states. The arrangement is part...
Those are questions many men ask when considering a paternity leave. Marc Greenhouse did not hesitate to take a month's leave three months ago, when his first child, daughter Ranit, was born. A 40-year-old data-processing systems analyst for Transamerica, Greenhouse began his time off a few days before his wife Dianne gave birth by caesarean section. He savored the days with his infant. Says he: "It was really a blessing...
...three days a week. Other companies adjust hours on a case-by-case basis. At Stride Rite, comptroller Nancy Cirigliano varied her schedule last December when her father was hospitalized, coming in late some days and leaving early on others. Says she: "My boss said, 'Don't even ask.' He understood...