Or does he or she listen carefully and ask for your help in improving?

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You need to engage with people, ask questions, listen carefully to what they say, join discussions, and most of all, be real!

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"I would just ask people to study this very carefully and to understand that any law does involve some trade-offs, " Mr Hill said.

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Hillary Clinton interrupted a roll call vote to ask that he be nominated by acclamation, a carefully choreographed maneuver designed to unite the party after the bitter primary battle between Obama and Clinton.

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Better yet, ask members of the media to send questions in writing and carefully prepare written responses.

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Ask your financial adviser to recommend some, and then read the fine print very carefully.

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If you're in the danger zone, try to limit deductions that aren't allowed in AMT--for example, unreimbursed employee business expenses. (Ask for a bigger expense account instead of a raise.) And pick your muni bond funds carefully: Certain muni interest is taxed in the AMT.

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