Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would seem difficult to root for the success of such an unpleasant character, but Casey artfully provides good reasons for doing so. Pierce's "swamp Yankee" pride is based on a fierce, if sometimes obnoxious, integrity. He does not ask for anything except the chance to make a decent living at what he knows best. The world needs seafood, and Pierce has learned through long experience how to find and catch it. He is, in fact, an archetypal figure in American literature, the little guy at odds with big institutions, battling the triumph of newfangled shoddiness over old traditions...
Twelve years later, they get married, disproving the first question the two characters ask each other in When Harry Met Sally...: Can men and women be friends without sex getting...
...Pledged to ask Congress for a $100 million"enterprise fund" to support Polish entrepreneurs.Moreover, he said he will ask other industrializeddemocracies to undertake similar initiatives atthis weekend's western economic summit meeting inParis...
...Said he would ask Congress to approve $15million to fight air and water polution in Krakow...
...Told the parliament he would ask his sixsummit partners to quickly support rescheduling ofup to $5 billion of Poland's $39 billioninternational debt...