Word: asking
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...depends on whom you ask. Some people think I’m boringly well-behaved and some probably think I’m a bit of a rabble-rouser. I helped organize the faculty union, and some thought I was not well=behaved in doing that. But I’ve been married to the same man for 51 years, and that’s pretty well-behaved, I think...
Though we have to ask, if Blair had frosting all over her face, would she lick...
...while money may talk in politics, it rarely has the last word. Just ask outgoing New Jersey Jon Corzine, who hugely outspent his opponent, and still lost...
...realize how much better a business it was to start with. The worst kind of business is the hit-driven business. One celebrity can hold up your entire enterprise. People are forever tricked into believing that somebody has the magic sauce and must be paid whatever they ask. Businesses such as newspapers, where the content is continuous and you're relying on the value of a franchise rather than a star reporter, are better businesses. Newspapers had 30% or more margins for years. There's no question that the Internet has made the newspaper business tougher than it was before...
...blame them for the impasse in solving the conflict, noting that Abbas spent last year in talks over a two-state deal with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert without ever mentioning a settlement freeze. Why are the Palestinians suddenly making such a fuss about a settlement freeze now? the Israelis ask, as if this signifies a hidden agenda. The Obama Administration appeared to take Netanyahu's side last weekend, pressing the Palestinians to drop the precondition for talking. But the Palestinians point out that they weren't the only ones raising the issue: the Obama Administration, too, had issued an unambiguous...