Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Massie offered steps individual might take to effect change. Shareholders should ask corporations to be more environmentally responsible, and point out that sometimes profits are tied the health of the environment, he said...
...first step is to write down everything you know about your family. Then interview relatives, oldest ones first. Videotape or tape-record them if possible. Ask for exact names, dates and places, and as many details of your ancestors' lives as they can remember. Copy all documents: birth, christening, marriage and death certificates, school and medical records, family-Bible inscriptions, military papers, old letters. "Everyone has a little piece of the puzzle," says Estelle Guzik, director of the New York Jewish Genealogical Society, who set out to trace relatives killed in the Holocaust. In one family a cousin had saved...
...also called Al Franken, who contributes jokes to various Democratic Senators. I asked Franken how much I should ask to get paid. "If you're doing it for Bob Smith, charge as much as you can and then write really bad jokes," he said. But I told him I wanted to be good at politics and not let policy get in my way. He agreed. "Suddenly everyone will take notice of how funny Bob Smith is, and then you can jump onto a bigger campaign. You just have to wait until after the New Hampshire primary, when he'll drop...
Before making your choice, ask around at your local genealogical society, through mailing lists and even in website chat rooms for advice. The good news is that it's not hard to export data if you later decide to switch from one software package to another. But don't try to run these products on an old 486; you'll get the best performance on a Pentium-class machine. And save plenty of room on your hard drive. The better you get at tracing your ancestral past, the more you'll need the space...
...these logos similar? Certainly. Is that actionable? MICHAEL EISNER is about to find out. Next week intellectual-property lawyer PIERCE O'DONNELL will ask a Los Angeles court for the right to depose the Disney CEO on behalf of GoTo.com the Web search engine that was launched in December 1997 using the logo on the left. The one on the right belongs to Disney's Go Network, which made its online debut just last January. "We think Disney was well aware of our logo and consciously went forward with theirs," says O'Donnell, noting that in legal papers filed...