Word: ask
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...account by London-based Amnesty International is crucial because it has dramatically affected the world's most important audience. Days after reading the 82-page report at Camp David, George Bush was still talking about it. "I ask you to read half of it," said the President during an interview with TIME in the Oval Office. "If you can't stomach half of it, read a quarter...
...most Haitians remain optimistic. Says Jean-Claude Bajeux, a professor of theology and the head of Haiti's Ecumenical Human Rights Center: "He knows he alone can't change the country, and we can't ask him to make the changes with a magical wand." If the people remember that, then not even the army can stop Aristide's avalanche...
...their parents to shell out more than $1 billion to see the cold-blooded heroes on the big screen and bring home such turtle tie-ins as video games and breakfast cereal. In 1990 a guaranteed way to start a conversation with an eight-year- old was to ask "Which turtle...
...would have to ask the Soviets that question. I cannot say exactly how the Soviet leadership would have reacted. But in September 1981 we were told by the Soviets that the following year they would be able to supply us with ) only 4 million tons of crude oil, compared with the normal 13 million tons. We were also warned that there would be similar proportional reductions in supplies of other raw materials, including cotton. Other members of the bloc would have reacted in a similar fashion. In other words, a total economic blockade awaited us unless we resolved our internal...
...When the Soviets made this threat in September, did you ask the West if it would make good the shortfall in these deliveries...