Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill Barrios is proposing would ask hospitals to decide the languages for which to provide interpreters based on the composition of the non-English-speaking clientele in their communities...
...forced to use relatively weak software. In January, a graduate student at Duke University took only four hours to break a code similar to those Web browsers use to protect credit card numbers. Netscape and Microsoft offer strong-encryption versions of their browsers to U.S. residents who ask for them, but because of export restrictions, the weak version is the standard. Many other products are similarly affected. Also in January, two private organizations, using $250,000 in computer equipment, cracked a code standard for government agencies and financial institutions in under 24 hours...
...recent "depoliticized" bill supporting the return of the Reserve Officer's Training Corps (ROTC) was a disappointing finale to an otherwise healthy and vigorous campus wide political debate. While declining to take any substantive political stance on the program itself--and by extension, the military's discriminatory don't-ask-don't-tell policy--the council instead passed a watered-down resolution from a strictly "student-services" perspective...
...Oncology published the first scientifically based guidelines for monitoring the return of colon cancer. The report, which is based on a review of 20 years of data, is bound to stir up controversy, however, because it suggests a minimalist approach for patients with no new symptoms. Doctors must always ask themselves whether a given test will do their patients any good, says Dr. Al Benson, the panel's co-chair and a medical oncologist at Northwestern University in Chicago. After all, he notes, "some of these tests are not entirely benign...
...hope to nab a big publishing deal and follow in the footsteps of someone like Angela's Ashes author Frank McCourt, you'll have to ask some hard questions about your book first. "Publishers decide on the basis that no one reads anymore. So they ask, 'Can we promote this?'" cautions Tristine Rainer, founder of the Center for Autobiographic Studies in Pasadena, Calif. Your memoir is marketable, according to Rainer, if it provides a glimpse into a unique world, reflects the social issues of a larger group or is just great writing. Even if you meet these criteria, convincing...