Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just ask Robert McGuire, a Mercedes salesman in Raleigh, N.C., who was ruefully watching as the market plunged last Tuesday. "Our customers are very investment driven," McGuire says. Just last month a retired engineer plunked down $50,000 in cash for a mid-size Mercedes as a present for his wife--a purchase paid for with money made in the stock market the previous week...
...what it was like in the old days, more able to have an actual conversation. But it's a work in progress. "We're just always working on that," says Jane. "We worked on it last night. Everybody is fascinated by Jimmy's life. He tries to remember to ask about theirs...
...merit scholarship to land prized applicants. If your family income is not low enough to warrant a need-based scholarship but your daughter is seen as something of an academic catch, she may well be offered an additional stipend to make her decision easier. Don't hesitate to ask...
...escape the public eye A stand-up guy, he'll testify Did he ask someone to lie? If so, it wasn't cool...
...increasingly lengthy list of bugs in the program. Gates, typically, is ready on both fronts with Microsoft's new "gentle" strategy: the firm plans to give away the update for free at microsoft.com starting Aug. 18, helping to squelch complaints about the new software. And Gates' lawyers will ask this week to have the federal suit thrown out of court, arguing that depositions of Netscape veeps have done nothing to show that Microsoft tried to force its smaller competitor out of the market. This may be a kinder, gentler Microsoft, but it's still on the offensive...