Word: asking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing to correct a statement made in the November 10, 1989, Harvard Crimson Hockey Supplement. In the Harvard Hockey Quiz on page 14, you ask for the native Minnesotans on this year's squad. You correctly identify Tod Hartje and Mike Vukonich. However, you omit Craig Miskovich, who was born and raised in Minnesota. Furthermore, as the dictionary defines "native" as "being such by birth or origin," the McCormack brothers, Scott and Brian, should also have been included, even though they now live elsewhere. J. Aron Allen, who now lives in Minnesota, would not be a correct response...
Surely Harvard University has some creative administrators able to devise a practical solution to the issue of pool safety and accessibility. Or at least, can we ask for a second opinion? Rozann Kraus
...superpowers aren't the only ones who would have to worry. Europe is no stranger to invading German armies. Just ask Poland or Czechoslovakia. Or France. Or Belgium. Even Great Britain can't afford to forget the shelling it suffered at German hands during World...
...Boone Pickens, a man with a disreputable reputation. America is in decline because of American managers who only care about their short-term gains so that they can boast about them at the next shareholders' meeting. Japanese managers use shareholders' meetings to explain their long-term plans and ask shareholders to bear with limited dividends. Japan has succeeded in rebuilding its economy because it has kept its idiosyncrasies, that is to say, management philosophy, labor- management relations and company-shareholders relations based on humane feelings. We don't have to change those characteristics just to please the Americans...
...Kitty had mostly set her own course. Aides remember her as an intimidating figure at the statehouse, where she claimed an office a few doors from her husband's. Often she threw her weight around, berating secretaries or barging unannounced into the Governor's corner office during meetings to ask personal questions. Never did Dukakis rebuke her openly. Usually he withheld delicate information from her. Kitty was too prone to spilling secrets...