• 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.

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  • "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.

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  • 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.

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  • Still, his passion for teaching -- as a child, he would ask for blackboards and teacher's editions of textbooks for birthdays -- paid off.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Fergus Muirhead

  • 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.

    BBC: Analysis

  • 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.

    CNN: The world's most poisonous phish

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • And if all those weren't enough, many ask-a-librarian services exist, often for free, including one run by the Library of Congress.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    ENGADGET

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

    BBC: Louis Theroux goes to the Miami mega-jail

  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Don't hesitate to ask your doctor to repeat information or to ask follow-up questions for clarification.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • For example, the partner could ask the overweight loved-one for suggestions.

    WSJ: How to Help an Overweight Partner Lose Weight

  • 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.

    FORBES: Amazon.com new high fashion push is aggressive and will encroach on Department Stores' turf

  • 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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