Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard does not know whether Fedics practices apartheid. One dining service administrator said simply that there was no time during the three-hour tour to ask about the company's policies. In his words, the interchange "was not about politics." The visit and the discussion centered on business and the exchange of professional ideas and information, he said...
...Manuel Noriega retreats into the bunker it is time for all the third world dictators of the Earth to take time out and contemplate their relationship with God, themselves, and the United States. Really, we don't ask for very much. Like the Harvard administration, the U.S. government asks that whatever you do, please do it behind closed doors. But the one thing we ask is that you don't plagarize, and don't start squawking to the Cubans. Okay...
...present expansion has been its ability to survive one hazard after another. Even the worst stock-market crash in history, the 508- point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average last Oct. 19, failed to throw the economy off course. The expansion's resilience has prompted economists to ask some searching questions: What is keeping growth going? Is the traditional business cycle a thing of the past...
...keeping the lines open. Jackson and Gore talked twice last Tuesday night. About what? "Things personal, things political," says Jackson. He also talked to Paul Simon, but never connected with Dick Gephardt, who tried to reach him Tuesday night. The previous weekend Jackson spoke with Mario Cuomo. Did he ask for an endorsement? "Jesse said he'd rather have Matilda," joked the Governor, referring to his wife. The one candidate who seems not to care about stroking Jackson is Michael Dukakis. It has been weeks since they talked at length, and Jackson has not formed the same bond with...
...problem with Reagan's foreign policy is that there is no underlying strategy. What Reagan doesn't like, he attacks--or, barring that, tries to get rid of it in the most expeditious way. He is like the typical Western gunslinger. Shoot first, and ask questions later...