Word: asks
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...spent a huge amount of money on this trip, a large part of your personal fortune. So far at least, is it worth it? Absolutely. Even kids ask me, Wow, how could you possibly consider spending that much of your personal wealth on this particular event? And what people have to know is, it wasn't that I was looking for a place to go spend some money. It was that I was looking for a way to reach space.. And I've built businesses, and invested, and grown my assets to pull it off. And I've made...
...ask hard questions.' BILL KELLER, the newspaper's executive editor, saying candidates are "not always comfortable with that level of scrutiny...
...Paulson and Bernanke asked for the world--and warned lawmakers they had only a few days to deliver it. Treasury needed $700 billion to buy up Wall Street's toxic mortgage-backed assets, which the government would eventually repackage and sell when the real estate market recovers, and a crisis might be averted. The proposal was simple, only three pages long. "Ben, Tim and I had talked for months about how there might be a need to do something like this, discussed the various plans," Paulson told TIME on Sept. 24. "The one thing we knew was that we couldn...
Traditionally, snakes have gotten a bad rap in the Holy Land--just ask Eve--so I am surprised that Barak's technique has found acceptance here in modern Israel. After some experimenting, she eventually settled on a combo of big snakes for a deep massage (the king and corn snakes are heavy enough to produce a kneading sensation) and little ones, whose passage over the skin is a trembling flutter. "People either like it a lot or they hate it," says Barak. She makes this remark as a busload of Israelis arrives, and an 18-year-old with flowing brown...
...ask a tourist to be swarmed by snakes. For a more traditional massage, many visitors head up to the Sea of Galilee. Secluded in the pine forests is the Bayit Bagalil, a boutique hotel offering tasty Mediterranean cuisine, views of the water Jesus supposedly walked on and a variety of massages for those who prefer a human's touch to a reptile's. It's also worthwhile to splash in the mineral-laden Dead Sea, renowned as a health spa ever since the Queen of Sheba raved about its medicinal properties 4,000 years ago. (Hint: resorts like...