Word: asks
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...would go out and watch the politicians work on the weekend before the New Hampshire primary. Our most memorable excursion was in 1992, when we saw Paul Tsongas selling his chilly fiscal discipline and then watched Bill Clinton work a nursing home. A woman started to ask Clinton about the high price of prescription drugs, then dissolved in tears, unable to finish. Clinton immediately went to the woman, dropped to his knees and hugged her; he held her tight for what seemed a long time. It was a reflexive reaction, and fairly shocking - neither of us were yet aware...
...training day. Specifically, I learned to wake people for meals but not beverage service; that people try to have sex in the bathroom all the time, and it's your job to knock on the door and get them out for their own safety. Also, you can totally ask for the whole can of soda. Thanks to a few hours in a pool next to a plane hull, I now know how to ditch a plane too. People almost never survive a jumbo-jet water landing, but if you didn't put 55 swimsuited future flight attendants in a pool...
...install fences, motion-detector lights and security cameras. Meanwhile, lawmakers looking to crack down on copper thieves are starting at the scrap yard. Thirty-five states have pending or signed legislation requiring people selling metal to show ID. If someone comes in with suspicious goods, scrap dealers need to ask questions like, "Why would you have 20 manhole covers anyway?" says Bruce Savage of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries. When Dan the miner arrived at an L.A. scrap yard, the yard's owner called the LAPD, whose art-theft detail recognized Dan's description. The men charged with cutting...
...ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.' HILLARY CLINTON, former Democratic presidential contender, delivering her concession speech and endorsing her rival for President...
...chaos theory revealed the power of disorder in meteorology, marketing, plate tectonics and more. Similarly, investigators across the social and scientific spectrums are today studying how systems that seem simple or complex may be just the opposite--and how that fact can expand our understanding of our world. "Ask me why I forgot my keys today, and the answer may be that something was on my mind," says neuroscientist Chris Wood of the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) in New Mexico, a multidisciplinary think tank devoted to complexity theory. "Ask me about the calcium channels in my brain that drive remembering...