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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band's moniker is typically the product of long and arduous nights spent searching for the perfect summation of everything a band sets out to be. In the case of a band christened with the most illustrious of expletives, the connotations surrounding "Fuck" are particularly strong. Ask anyone to predict the band's style, and the answers will most likely be pretty similar. Death-metal. Angry punk-rock punctuated with chaotic background crashing and thrashing. Grating shrieks of hormone-infused, garage-ridden, guitar-laden pre-pubescents. Anything but the surprisingly slow, seductive and beautifully simple melodies contained within...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dirty Minds, Delicate Music | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

...album again in a very different vein. A single guitar picks out a tranquil, wandering melody, allowing listeners a few seconds to absorb the shock of the transition before Prodhumme (sounding very much like The Flaming Lips on a particularly sober day) enters with an endearing, wavering voice to ask what it really means to be an artist: "You concentrate/get strait/calculate/what it takes to be an artist...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dirty Minds, Delicate Music | 10/9/1998 | See Source »

Five of the test's eight sections ask students to indicate whether they like, dislike, or feel indifferent towards various occupations, academic subjects, activities andtypes of people...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OCS 'Inventory' Helps Identify Career Goals | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

Another two sections ask test-takers to assesstheir personal character, and a final section asksstudents to indicate a preference between twodifferent activities...

Author: By Elizabeth N. Dewar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OCS 'Inventory' Helps Identify Career Goals | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

...afraid to ask for sales up front," Favalora said. Still, entrepreneurs should be prepared to lose equity, he added...

Author: By Gila D. Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young HBS Entrepreneur Offers Business Advice to Aspiring Students | 10/8/1998 | See Source »

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