Word: asks
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...grace notes, however, begin to sound softly in her life. Her parole officer is notably sympathetic to her. Her nieces are chipper and accepting of her - and they occasionally ask her the direct questions about her past that the adults prefer not to bring up. The speechless grandfather establishes a benign connection, mainly through the love of reading he shares with Juliette. A man even appears - patient, unglamorous and someone who, like Claudel himself, has worked in prisons and understands the devastation that long-term incarceration can cause. Most important, there...
...faulty risk management system that underestimated probabilities while giving people the illusion of understanding them. It gave people the illusion of comfort. If I give you a number, you're going to take more risk. Regardless of the confidence you have in the number. It's psychological. If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes...
...Church said that even this comparative bargain is too much to ask of an average person. Instead, he envisions a future in which an individual can easily afford to use information from his or her genetic code to create a personal risk profile for common diseases...
Harvard’s planners also emphasized the important role that new retail will play in livening up the area, prompting some residents to ask for more specifics and others to offer suggestions...
...Cuban calculation really on the level? Skeptics ask if the 20-billion-bbl. estimate is just a ploy to rekindle investor interest, at a time when falling oil prices could make the maritime find less attractive to the potential international partners Cuba needs to extract the oil. The effort is all the more urgent, they add, because reduced oil revenues could also make friends like left-wing Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez less able to aid Cuba with cut-rate crude shipments and capital to improve the island's aged refineries. "The Cuba numbers from my point of view...