Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Graham's perennial opponent, city employee Alvin Thompson, is right to question her accessibility to constituents and to ask whether she can serve effectively in both state and local government at once. While others on the city council also hold two jobs, Graham's constituents must decide whether they want the same person to represent them twice. On the other hand, Thompson, whose political opinions are not far removed from Graham's, has yet to prove his political ability...
...Corporation refused a council request to annual meetings with students. The request certainly was not much to ask; the refusal shows how adamantly opposed to dialogue the administration is As a reflection of the white male-run Corporation that runs this school, this attitude makes sense. But now students are showing that they expect more. And having deigned to admit a diverse student body, Harvard has a responsibility to accommodate their concerns...
...admirer of "that kind of drone quality" that was the rhythmic core of the Velvet Underground, Mercer works on Feelies material at home, on his own, then brings it in for his four partners to "mold to the melody." "Glenn writes the lyrics, though," says Million. "We don't ask him what they mean." Witty and oblique, as if they just slid off the edge of a tilted brainpan, the lyrics snuggle into niches tucked neatly inside the guitar- fueled rhythms that sound like rock for a trance state...
West German medical officials later complained that air-base authorities were inadequately prepared for such a disaster. "I have to ask myself why there were no mobile medical teams at the site," said Wolfgang Herbig, a hospital director in the nearby town of Kaiserslautern. "There are always many ambulances at motor races or soccer games." Base officials defended their planning. "You don't plan for 300 and more injuries," protested one U.S. Government official. "If you had any idea that might happen, you wouldn't let the show take place...
Today satellite pictures of chlorophyll a, the best indicator of photosynthesis, are as reliable as readings taken directly from the water. Evans and NASA will soon begin releasing the global images to eager colleagues. "If we are to ask society to make trillion-dollar decisions, such as switching from coal to natural gas in order to reverse the greenhouse effect, we have to validate the models on which those decisions are based," says Stephen Schneider of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder. "The primary productivity of the oceans is an essential component of any such model...