Word: request
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Artist at the Grammys, Christina Aguilera steps inside a black superstretch limo and drives off into the Los Angeles night. Breathless (was it the respectful nods she got from Elton John backstage?), she picks up her cell phone and talks to her mom and then to MTV's Total Request Live host Carson Daly--you know, the people who really count on a night like this. Then she turns to the reporter in the car with her. "Did I sound O.K. onstage?" she asks. "I was in shock. I was preparing at that moment to put on my loser face...
WHAT'S MONEY AMONG FRIENDS? Nothing's harder than asking friends for money they owe you. Now two websites can help. Both paypal.com and payme.com let you request the cash and conduct the transaction entirely online. With Payme, launched last week, you first register at the site with your bank account or credit-card number. Then you e-mail your deadbeat friends, asking them to enter their credit-card numbers on the Payme site. With Paypal, both parties must register at the site, which will deposit the money into your bank, mail you a check or leave the money...
...will force Goldstein to take his medication if he becomes incoherent or disoriented; under her instructions, he is now being offered the drugs twice a day, and can decide whether to take them. So far he has declined. With their client's condition gradually deteriorating, Goldstein's lawyers have requested that he be allowed to testify now on videotape, in case he becomes too erratic to testify at all. That request was denied. They must now hope that he can hang in there, and that when the time comes he seem plausibly insane, but not so much so that...
...Shuffle tensely towards the reference desk, with mind racing. Fumble for a way to tactfully request the raunchiest readings that Widener has to offer...
...Preface your sick request by sputtering, "Hi...this is going to sound really weird, but..." and then try to justify your forthcoming utterance...