Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they decided to ask...
...long will they keep coming? That you have to ask Mr. Krenz!" said Uwe Luetjhe, the federal border police duty chief...
...reason is an unusual mixture of efficiency and political naivete at the Commerce Department, where Secretary Robert Mosbacher did not ask Bush to sign a waiver until he knew there would not be enough nonpolitical applicants to fill 2,700 management jobs, which pay up to $18 an hour...
...even on the less-busy nights, if you ask them how long it will be until the car arrives, the response is almost always "Five to 20 minutes, wait outside...
...generation," I must confess that all this rather severely depresses me. On the Harvard campus where I teach, for example, rarely, if ever, do I see the brazen, sap-running spectacle of a hand held, a partner embraced, a kiss tendered (wet or dry), and I cannot help but ask these high-flying, career-tracing, dollar-sniffing, supposedly "younger" persons of the passionate years (to quote someone from their generation, Tracy Chapman): "If not now...when...