Anyway, I asked my friend if he knew he was shilling for Romney.

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It made a strong impression on me, and before I left I asked my friend who had painted it.

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In each case, I asked my friend how that amounted to betrayal.

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On the animation front, I asked my old friend Luke Jaeger what he was hearing in that community.

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When I asked my close friend, a stay-at-home mom, about it, she told me about her own husband, who had to miss the first week that their young son spent at a new school because of a business trip.

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Having left the Fed six years ago this month, I had lost track of the goings on in Ireland, so I tracked down my friend by email and asked him what happened to Ireland.

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After realizing how helpful it was hear an objective view of my value, I started gathering intel from people who were similarly non-competitive with me: I asked my former boss for his advice, and my friend who works in finance.

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"My old friend Ross Perot asked me to help and I was impressed by his capacity to get people involved" in politics, Swindle says.

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Last year, my friend Sam, a retail operations manager of a CSA and agritourism farm, asked if I could help him find software that would enable him to connect the back and front-ends of the farm he managed.

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