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Word: asking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Students may ask dining hall managers for absentee ballot forms after 4 p.m. today, said McNitt. They must return the completed absentee ballots to a dining hall manager by 1 p.m. tomorrow to be counted in the final vote, she added...

Author: By Christopher T. Boyd and Nicholas A. Nash, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Grape Vote Will Include Six Options | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...tells me that he splits his time between an assistant professor position at UMass Boston and the Archive, and notes that while films that run from Monday through Thursday are generally Harvard course tie-ins, the weekend schedule is his to program as he wishes. I ask how he goes about picking films and he explains that his decisions are based on "a whole host of ingredients." But he makes sure to impart that he sees film as "an artistic means of expression, a personal means of expression...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: The Last Picture Show | 11/19/1997 | See Source »

...then in rural Connecticut. He played the foreign-exchange market and ignored movies, except for producing an occasional project with his friend director Mike Nichols, like 1990's Postcards from the Edge. At one point Michael Ovitz--then the top man at Creative Artists Agency--dropped by to ask if he was satisfied with his life. At the time, says Calley, "I felt I was living a little bit in God's waiting room. I was sleeping 18 hours a day...I like to dream. It was not a sign of advanced depression. [But] I said, 'I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SONY'S BLOCKBUSTER SEQUEL | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...fancy restaurants), why should the Internet enjoy this advantage? The usual answer is that there are 30,000 different taxing jurisdictions in the U.S., and the diffuse nature of cyberspace makes Internet commerce uniquely vulnerable to conflicting and overlapping tax claims. But the nightmare scenarios are nothing new. Ask General Motors or Federal Express if 50 states and thousands of counties and cities add up to a picnic for them. The mail-order houses used to insist, until last week, that collecting all these different sales taxes was logistically impossible. But that alleged problem seems to have disappeared. If anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATTENTION, WEB MART SHOPPERS! | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

...celebrated several years ago by the spectacular four-CD boxed set Songs of Freedom (Island). Now Tosh, who was murdered in 1987, gets the box treatment in the just released three-CD set Honorary Citizen (Legacy). With respect properly paid to the past, it's a good time to ask, Who are the new reggae lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE ROAR OF NEW REGGAE | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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