Word: asking
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Indeed there is usually an easy way to spot the unprepared, namely to ask a question and then see who begins rifling through their materials in a wild, desperate attempt to avoid making eye-contact. People frantically and aimlessly search through their notebooks as if the mysteries of the universe, let alone the answer to the question, could be found there. The look on their face is intent, as if they had just written an essay on that very question and if only they could find it buried deep in their cavernous backpack, they could address the issue. Their eyes...
...Cambridge City Council voted unanimously Monday night to ask Middlesex County District Attorney Thomas F. Reilly to investigate alleged "land-flipping" schemes at two Cambridge apartment complexes...
Clinton may be the winner in the dismissal of the Paula Jones sexual-harassment lawsuit [NATION, April 13], but the judge's decision has set back the women's movement 50 years. Now any boss can ask a woman to come into his office, close the door, unzip his pants and ask her to perform oral sex. Even if she refuses and leaves, she can no longer claim outrage in a court of law. Unless this ruling is reversed, women in the workplace had better not go into the boss's office without a witness. If Clinton can get away...
...help (but no reward). As Kaczynski comes before a federal judge today to be sentenced to life in prison, Jones, now an English teacher at Utah Valley State College, plans to watch the news along with the rest of the public. But he has written Kaczynski a letter to ask him one question that still bothers him: Was his theory right...
...front-page Sunday New York Times story on Dr.Judah Folkman's research into a technique for killing cancer tumors has sparked widespread dramatic coverage in the media, but TIME medical writer Christine Gorman is paying attention to a different angle: Always ask, she says, who benefits from early media reports of a cancer-treatment breakthrough...