Obviously BP pays for it, but why not ask them to just completely step aside on that front?

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But researchers did not directly ask participants why they did or did not get married, Kadan-Lottick said.

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Please do not ask why, but in Tarpon Springs, Greek restaurants started hiding a dollop of potato salad inside a regulation Greek salad - now you can find this odd combination throughout central Florida.

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Currently an insurer will ask about your health background, smoking and alcohol intake but why not your daily exercise regime too?

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But some may ask why, if investment banks make so much, other banks do not enter the market and undercut their profits.

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Under such circumstances it is legitimate to ask not why the whaling industry should be prevented from plying its trade but why it should be permitted to do so.

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