Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mentor was a woman," said Aziza J. Johnson '00. "I felt like if I wanted to work with a man, I could have done it through the Harvard career internship program. I really like being able to talk about what it's like to be a woman, to ask if she thinks her gender has helped or hurt...
...last night's meeting, the council voted to ask the students whether they would like to increase the term bill fee from $20 to $40. The question will be put to a binding referendum in April...
Piracy of entertainment content on the Internet is a growing pain in the wallet for artists and executives in several huge industries. Just ask any music mogul who has fretted over the explosion of copyrighted songs that have been pirated and made available for free in the MP3 format on the Net. The rise of emulators could present an even more insidious problem. For one thing, annual sales of video and computer games, at $6.3 billion, have surpassed those of recorded music and even movies ($6 billion). And piracy hits the games industry harder, undercutting sales of both consoles...
...Anthony, who is said to be planning a duet with Madonna, will have to labor a little harder to introduce himself to English-speaking audiences, despite his fine work on Broadway in The Capeman and several small film roles. "When I go into stores in Times Square and ask for my album, they say it's in the back, in the international section," Anthony complains. "I recorded it on 47th Street! How can you get more local than that...
Interest rates are on the rise, and if you are holding a variable-rate loan or need to borrow now, you may well ask why. You will not be happy with the answer. Wall Street, of course, is ground zero, but don't go looking for logic there. All you'll find is a bunch of paranoid bond traders with more worries than a Woody Allen character. It is these traders who have decided that the prices you pay for gas, Wheaties and SUVs are about to start shooting higher, and so they are selling bonds--driving up bond yields...