Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must ask ourselves if we can accept Bundy's assertion that complete disarmament is impossible, considering the broad range of leaders who now have nuclear warheads at their disposal. We can be encouraged by Bundy's intricate descriptions of previous politicians whose sane choices rectified dangerous situations, but, as he himself writes, the world's future depends upon the continuity of this sanity...
...questions based on research material. Then she comes on the program and she brings with her an attitude, which she mentioned early on: "I guess Cher was right." ((Cher once called Letterman an unprintable name on the air.)) I thought that was untoward, needless. And then, when I would ask her the questions, about her past lives or about her book or about her film -- projects that she had devoted no small measure of time and effort to -- she just couldn't be bothered. So I thought to myself: Why are you on this show, lady? There...
...There is so much instability in their lives," says Ronayne. "It's a lot to ask of Harvard students to volunteer their time each week, but it's much more to ask of these adults...
...concern about information policy comes inthe context of concern about a vastly expanding,and, in our opinion, over-expanding, notion ofwhat constitutes national security," Spence said."We're urging people to ask questions aboutwhether national security as it was expansivelydefined in the Reagan years is being overused as ajustification for constraints on informationflow...
John Kennedy's "ask not" formulation was better put, and Eisenhower's too: "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." But Bush's simplicity was profound, and more in keeping with his underlying message. After a negative campaign that valued victory above all, Bush's positioning himself as a moral leader may seem strange. But the new President, for one, believes that the election "was then" and that the "time to govern" should obliterate inconvenient memories...