Upload speeds also varied, with DSL again dipping the lowest at 95-percent of what's advertised -- might be time to ask your phone-based ISP for a partial refund, no?
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The point is, the workahol-a-beast can perhaps be tamed if we ask for help and adopt the uber-efficiency strategies that I hope to God are spelled out in The 4-Hour Workweek.
"It's definitely a buyer's market, " Freitag said, and it is the right time to ask -- if these add-ons aren't already offered -- for free breakfasts, room upgrades and, for example, free access to a property's gym.
Seriously, stratospheric prices don't bother us -- there is the "rich keep getting richer" crowd, after all -- but is it too much to ask for feature parity with entry-level receivers for this kind of money?
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Devout Muslims regard the eclipse as a time of prayer - offering two raka'ats to ask for forgiveness - and a time to give alms to the poor.
Still, his passion for teaching -- as a child, he would ask for blackboards and teacher's editions of textbooks for birthdays -- paid off.
The list, which serves parents in the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens and Cobble Hill and environs, is a sort of ask-it-all for thousands of members.
The first two novels - The Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask and the Answer - were shortlisted for the Carnegie in 2009 and 2010.
If you are both retiring then you need to ask your pension providers for up-to-date statements and then look at what your pensions are likely to give you as an income.
Simple, soften them up with a long campaign about how a pension fund deficit is threatening the future of the company - and therefore their jobs - then ask them to pay more for their pensions.
He does this by using official-looking (but completely bogus) "correspondence" from banking institutions, ISPs, government agencies (such as the IRS), online merchants -- you name it -- which may simply come right out and ask for this personal information.
But co-owner Ryan Sweeney said the uninitiated should not be afraid to ask for guidance, as his well-trained staff are always eager to educate customers and offer suggestions.
Additionally, the club pursued and would later sign 37-year-old wideout Derrick Mason, a move that prompted 29-year-old Jerricho Cotchery to ask the Jets for his walking papers.
And if all those weren't enough, many ask-a-librarian services exist, often for free, including one run by the Library of Congress.
Fellow bailout recipients like Ireland -- which had to accept a full country bailout for its bust banks -- may ask for their terms to be reviewed, while Spain could clash with other countries over which banks are worth saving and which aren't.
You might suggest that the young man ask career-services or disabilities-services specialists on his campus for help with interviewing skills, if he hasn't done so already, says Melanie Whetzel, a senior consultant for the Job Accommodation Network, a free service at askjan.org offered by the Labor Department.
It was a tough market for most conventional PC builders -- just ask Dell -- and there's no immediate signs that it will be any easier for them in 2013.
The W is also centrally located next to the exquisite Beaux-Arts-style Opera Palais Garnier (ask for a room with a view of it) and easy access to several Metro lines.
Sandberg's announcement reminds us, too, of how little we're asking for when we ask for flexibility -- things like getting home to have dinner with our families or take an ailing parent to the doctor.
He'd noticed that some personal items were missing and, even though he had no idea who was responsible, jailhouse rules dictated that he had to ask his bunk-mate to "strap up" - put his shoes on for a fight.
If you need turf grass for children or dogs to romp on or to carpet your outdoor living areas, ask your local suppliers for the best water-saving grass for your area.
But even as Amgen defends its anemia franchise against threats on all sides--including cuts in what insurers and the government will pay for--investors will ask whether it can conquer a new disease: osteoporosis, the chronic bone weakening that afflicts 10 million Americans, most of them women.
But even as Amgen (nasdaq: AMGN - news - people ) defends its anemia franchise against threats on all sides--including cuts in what insurers and the government will pay for--investors will ask whether it can conquer a new disease: osteoporosis, the chronic bone weakening that afflicts 10 million Americans, most of them women.
Don't hesitate to ask your doctor to repeat information or to ask follow-up questions for clarification.
Men dominate profit-and-loss posts, in part because they ask for them, while women often wait for them to be offered, says Jennifer W. Christensen, a Chicago executive recruiter.
Should that happen, Welch said he would ask the bank's human-resources department to secure time without pay for the bank's in-house brawler, thus ensuring his job doesn't go anywhere.
For example, the partner could ask the overweight loved-one for suggestions.
You see, in the study, which was conducted by a professor at the University of South Brittany in France and published in the journal "Psychology of Music, " a 20-year-old "good looking" man was challenged to ask 300 women for their phone number.
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Amazon claims they will not ask for the traditional mark-down allowances from manufacturers nor return privilege for the merchandise from the suppliers.
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Its 54 rooms line a rabbit warren of dark-wood-paneled corridors and spiraling staircases I had to ask the staff for directions on several occasions that give the place an air of rakish glamour.
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