Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worked for someone else in a structured setting, you have to determine if you are self-motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning and get right to work on your own," says Bennie Thayer of the National Association for the Self-Employed. "Then you have to ask yourself if you are physically and mentally ready to take on the competition." Entrepreneurs age 50 and over tend to be more successful because they are more mature, more stable financially and better able to judge how much risk they should take, Thayer notes. The downside is that they...
...week before the election, ol' Fritz is in a tussle with bounding Bob, who wants to close up that pork barrel so tight that he votes against projects that benefit his own district. "He resents the government," says Hollings. "Ask him what has he done in Washington in the past six years but whine and complain and holler pork...
...nothing for ourselves. I made less than $100 a week." She and her husband made so little money they couldn't afford to live together. He continued to sleep on the floor of the restaurant that employed him. She slept in a basement owned by relatives. Her husband would ask angrily, "Why don't you work harder?" "But," says Yu, "I couldn't work any harder...
...next day, Tuesday, Clinton got off his helicopter with a pad that had a column for each side's needs, bunched in three categories of difficulty. He joked with the parties, "I've kept you so long, you have a right to ask me for territory." Clinton got Arafat to accept Netanyahu's five security demands, but that afternoon Bibi put forward a kitchen-sink collection of complaints. Once the core security problems were solved, it was clear to Clinton that two emotional issues were blocking progress. For the Palestinians, it was the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails...
...asking too much if we ask the President not to lie the American people, and it's not asking too much of the feminist movement to stand by what they believe," Whitman said...