Word: asked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Blue collar workers across the country are becoming enraged at seeing their peers being thrown out of jobs with support from the Treasury. Local towns and cities will have to support workers at dealerships that close. Banking and investment firms not involved in the GM situation will have to ask themselves if their future rights could ever be undermined by a process driven by the financial might of the U.S. government. (Read "Is This Detroit's Last Winter...
Mohamed, the Scottish real estate broker, is thinking of leaving too. His company is declaring bankruptcy, he says, and security guards recently prevented him from removing furniture from his office because of a rent dispute with the landlord. A local bank keeps calling to ask for the whereabouts of a former employee, a male nurse from Edinburgh who came to Dubai, hit the nightclub scene, bought a Porsche convertible, and then fled home after a week on the job, leaving about $115,000 in debt. "What were [they] thinking, loaning ?80,000 to a 24-year-old with no stable...
...government's response to charges of journalistic harassment has been to ask for patience. "Journalists need to put everything into perspective," says Webster Shamu, Zimbabwe's Information Minister and a Mugabe appointee. "When [the coalition] started, we first needed to study and learn to trust each other. We have achieved that, and we are now looking at the problems our people are facing. It would be wrong to say the first 100 days were wasted. They were 100 days of serious hard work...
...didn't happen. I presented all evidence to prove that it didn't. I ask for God's protection for he is my best advocate." - Pleading not guilty in court...
...Division of Labor Ask anyone in the East Wing how Michelle sees the role of First Lady and you hear a lot about "supporting the President's agenda." But what happens if she disagrees with her husband about some policy he's embraced? "I'm sure I do what every spouse does," she says, as though their potential disagreements are in any way like any other couple's. "We'll have conversations, and we'll share our opinions over the course of the conversation. But I don't want to have a say. Really, there are a lot of times...