Word: asking
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...arrives to take the three visitors on a tour of the campus. Along the way, they spontaneously run into Tune’s buddy and fellow “hottie” Baruch Y. Shemtov '09. And according to Camille, there's not much more a girl could ask...
...Nesson, known for advancing unusual legal arguments, said that the damages awarded would bankrupt Tenenbaum, and that his client would ask Judge Nancy Gertner to reduce the sum to a more "reasonable" level. In the only previous such case to go to trial, Capitol v. Thomas, the plaintiffs were awarded $9,250 per song, an amount raised to $80,000 per song in the re-trial for a total of $1.92 million...
...iron fist in a velvet glove." The mayhem on Saturday, his critics are now saying, are a harbinger of worse things to come. The brutal display of force unfolded in the middle of a Saturday afternoon in central Kuala Lumpur as protesters marched to Istana Negara palace to ask King Mizan Zainal Abidin - whose role in Malaysia today is largely ceremonial - to repeal the ISA law. The law, under which detained persons can be held without trial for years under the act, was first enacted in 1948 to use against communist insurgents, but has always been abused. In September...
...multibillion deal to buy Merrill over the course of a single weekend during the worst of the financial crisis. Quickly, it became apparent that Merrill Lynch was in much worse shape than Lewis had suspected. Worrying that the deal would cripple his bank, Lewis was forced to ask the Treasury Department for $20 billion in additional financial support to complete the deal...
...role. Unlike the old Soviet Union or contemporary North Korea, Iran is not entirely sealed off from the U.S. or the rest of the world. Iranian-Americans have for years traveled with relative ease between their two countries, the beneficiaries of an informal policy of don't-ask-don't-tell set up between these two old adversaries. The status of Iranian-Americans in Iran itself is a tenuous one, the state's attitude toward us equivocal at best. Like the Internet and satellite dishes, we are tolerated but kept under official watch, seen as a source of good...