Word: asking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Introducing the Home Computer But to say the iPad is revolutionary isn't quite right. There's nothing like it out there, so there's no regime to change. One of the things that makes Apple unique is that it never holds focus groups. It doesn't ask people what they want; it tells them what they're going to want next. Where Microsoft likes to enter established markets and take them over by brute force, Apple works by creating new niches and dominating them from the get-go. (See a roundup of iPad content prices at Techland.com...
...talking new ideas: reforming the government, improving the social safety net, cozying up to Asia. But his options are constrained by the mess built up over two decades of inaction. He's confronting an unsustainable fiscal position and an economy with deteriorating competitiveness. Perhaps America's political leaders should ask Hatoyama for some advice. Don't wait, he might say, or you could turn Japanese...
...Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as "deem and pass," it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush? ... If the bill is so unpopular that it must be passed long before Election Day, could there be a problem with the legislation? ... If you can't run on the strength of the laws you pass, then either you shouldn't be running or you shouldn't be passing...
...Sklifosovsky Hospital, one of Moscow's largest, a grim vigil began in the late morning as roughly a dozen people lined up to ask about missing family members. Igor Yegorov was there to look for his wife. "She went to work as usual this morning, and I can't reach her. Hopefully it's just that the cell-phone networks are down. But I don't know," he says, pale and shaking as he waited to check the hospital list. By late afternoon, the flow of ambulances to the hospital had stopped, and service had been restored to the rest...
...turn, is likely to delay any action on a repeal until that report is finished. That means the next eight months - and how those in uniform react to Gates' changes, which take effect immediately - are likely to play a key role in the ultimate fate of "Don't ask, don't tell...