Word: ask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Efforts to stop the destruction run into moral as well as practical obstacles. How can developed nations demand onerous debt payments and ask the debtors to preserve their forests? How can countries worry about biodiversity when their people are concerned with feeding themselves...
...bring racketeering charges that could have crippled Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. securities firm. Before the deal can be completed, however, Giuliani stipulated, a 184- page civil complaint that the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against Drexel in September must be settled by Jan. 10. The SEC could conceivably ask for a larger pool of money to compensate alleged victims, who range from ordinary stockholders to Drexel's clients. Even so, Giuliani declared Drexel's fines and concessions "appropriate punishment." He added, "You do not put corporations in prison...
...think we should blow out of here to Turkey. I'm going to ask for the vectors to Ankara...
...tight wraps, we swore Jolna and the members of his unit to secrecy. They quietly came and went from an unmarked office two floors above the bustling CNN newsroom that was cryptically known around the network as Edit Booth X. "Occasionally, CNN colleagues not involved with the program would ask me to whisper who it was," Jolna says, smiling. "I would mutter that it was a sports figure, or something like that, and they would walk away scratching their heads...
...away fallen masonry, "you could hear the terrible cries of people waiting for help," wrote a reporter for Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper. In devastated Spitak, a correspondent for Sotsialisticheskaya Industriya said, rescue workers heard a small girl trapped under a pile of rubble cry for her mother and ask for water. They lowered a pipe for her to drink through, but were unable to free...