Word: asks
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...letters, embarrassing disclosures, heated debates, and daily requests for tower residents to turn down the Beyoncé. It’s a testament to the friendliness and community spirit of Mather House that no plea for strobe lights, bedsheets (?), blowup hammers, or the fax machine (don’t ask about the fax machine) goes unanswered...
...Singapore, overlooking the slate gray waters of the Johore Strait, the public-housing project where Anthony Fulwood lives is so far from the city's affluent expatriate enclaves that cabdrivers are stunned when he announces his address. " 'For God's sake, why do you live there?' they regularly ask me," says Fulwood. " 'You're white...
When Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg jets into Washington this Sunday he plans on asking some tough questions. Germany's new Economy Minister is due to meet U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and bosses at embattled American carmaker General Motors. Opel, a Germany-based division of GM, is fast running out of cash and GM and Opel bosses recently went cap in hand to Berlin to ask for $4.25 billion in state aid. In return, GM say they will restructure Opel by cutting costs and loosening the company's ties with the parent company in Detroit. Opel would become an autonomous...
...workshop, Flyby decided to ask Jen if anybody ever criticized him for being too smooth. He said, “People always hold you back. Especially because it makes them uncomfortable to have a change even if they know it’s better for them. If you know what’s good for you, and it could potentially make you feel happy, just ignore everyone else...
...Rating: AA.* Sure, there are flaws, but you should be going pretty much ballistic with joy when you crack open that housing envelope and read the words "Lowell House." It guarantees that for three years, whenever you show a stranger around campus, they'll ask with incredulity, "You LIVE here?" And that's worth something. When you walk in that front gate and breathe the cool Lowell courtyard air, you'll know you're home...