Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to believe this year's mushy Democratic platform was written by the same man, Theodore Sorensen, who helped write J.F.K.'s "Ask not what your country can do for you." These days no politician of either party dares to ask people to do anything for their country...
...because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious to the century of hustling that has gone into transforming Atlanta into a modern national city, persist in envisioning it as it existed in Margaret Mitchell's antebellum fantasies: they stand in the shadow of Atlanta's great office towers and ask to see Tara. "Look at Atlanta Now" may be replaced in time, but there are no obvious candidates. "The Business of America is Business" has, of course, already been used...
Nothing else about the payments has been decided: whether the families will all be offered the same or varying amounts, and whether the Administration can find the money under existing appropriations or will have to ask Congress to put up the money. Several lawmakers immediately made grandstanding demands that release of the funds be tied to freedom for U.S. hostages held in Lebanon. Nonetheless, the offer of compensation underscored a dramatic difference between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which to this day has refused to pay anything to the families of passengers aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot...
...Monday night during former President Jimmy Carter's speech, Kitty Dukakis, worn out from the excitement of the week, started nodding off to sleep. After consulting with other staff people, her advance woman made her way over to the governor's wife and gently poked her in order to ask a strategic question...
...ability to pique childrens' interests and teach them without the atmosphere of the stuffy class room is what Eaton sees as vital to Summer Splash's success. If the children enjoy their visit to the water exhibit, then they will ask to come again. But, Eaton adds, were it not for the cooperation of the surrounding business community and for modern trends in child raising, the exhibit would not have been as successful as it has been...