Word: asked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more, a number of members of Congress are pushing for TARP funds to be used to aid troubled automakers. President-elect Barack Obama has said that he favors lending federal financial assistance to Chrysler, Ford and GM. And, like AIG, a number of large insurance companies may soon ask for a piece of the remaining bailout fund as well...
...first talk show appearance. Andy Bumatai, a Honolulu comedian, had heard about the local kid with Oval Office dreams and invited him for a chat. With the cameras rolling, the 17-year-old settled into an armchair next to Bumatai. “Chris, I want to ask you,” Bumatai said, leaning forward, “if you could have, by some hook or crook, run this year, would you?” Chris didn’t hesitate. “I would have loved to,” he said. “I would...
...Very tall, chiseled face, you know, with a lot of gravitas.” “I think people used to look at themselves in the mirror and think, ‘I look presidential.’” I had called Dershowitz to ask about Chris, who had gotten into Harvard, sure enough, and then managed to land a spot in Dershowitz’s highly selective freshman seminar on law and morality. It hadn’t been hard to find Chris; he had a YouTube clip of his talk show interview on his Facebook...
...When Rove appeared on Fox News last Tuesday to analyze the election returns, Caleb was there in the studio with him. His hotel room is usually right next to Rove’s. “You don’t, like, share a room?” I ask. “Bunk beds?” Caleb laughs at me. “It’s not like we’re sleeping in the same bed.” The job of being a political figure’s body man requires, first and foremost, discretion...
...everyone what it’s all about,” said Anne Harrington, chair of the history of science department. “To some people it just seems like you do some history and you do some science, but the intellectual heart of the program is to ask big questions about the stakes of science, not just to do it but why it matters...