Word: asking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...single smartest move the planners of the New Hampshire debate made was to have citizens ask questions instead of journalists, who can be counted on to trot out Beltway buzzwords like "Clinton fatigue" and harp on fundraising statistics that are meaningless to most voters but have dominated primary coverage nonetheless. We're hopeful that these can be debates of substance and ideas, not of image and spin...
About 45 students crammed into Rehearsal Room C of the American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) on Brattle Street to ask Tomei about the difference between acting in film and on stage, the advantages of being a celebrity and the significance of an enigmatic tattoo on her right foot...
When people ask this question, they don't really want or expect more than a one or two word reply, usually an adjective best reserved for fellowship applications: fulfilling, inspiring, perhaps challenging for the even-handed. People usually don't stick around long enough to ask you a follow-up and if they do it usually only requires another few monosyllabic proper names and places...
...will be a leading advocate for forming a subcommittee...to go out and force these places to give resources and opportunities to our children and our parents," Harshbarger said. "If we ask, they will follow," he added...
...support their initiative, Michigan welfare officials are citing years of widely accepted corporate drug testing; their opponents counter that private institutions are not limited, as government programs are, by the Fourth Amendment. Who's right? It depends on whom you ask, says TIME senior reporter Alain Sanders. "The current Supreme Court is very conservative on the Fourth Amendment, and they?ve given government a lot of freedom to enact what many consider to be unreasonable intrusions." In the past, explains Sanders, "the court has generally upheld random drug tests when it has perceived an important impact on safety...