If you're employed and thinking about changing jobs, or if your objective is to make a career switch, holiday gatherings also offer a chance to ask people about their own work.
In fact it has become the standard in the United States for faculty if they do want to have a raise simply to get an offer from another university and then go back to their own university and ask them to meet that offer.
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Zittrain also pointed to sites like couchsurfing.org, where people offer and ask for the opportunity to sleep on total strangers' couches, and Kacie Kinzer's 2009 tweenbot project.
Their presence delights both passengers, who frequently offer congratulations and ask to take their picture, and their superiors.
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Every voter needs to ask which candidate will offer the most incentives to get our economy growing again.
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Even the most talented in-house executive may be buried too deep in the weeds to ask the tough questions and offer forward-looking thinking to avoid a product becoming obsolete before it even makes it to the market.
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Armed with knowledge of how the SEC caters to corporations, it seemed reasonable to me to ask its Office of the Whistleblower to offer a similar helping hand to whistleblowers seeking to assist the Commission in addressing securities law violations.
American officials have reportedly approached the families of those killed in Lahore to offer money in the hope they would ask for the charges against Mr Davis to be dropped.
Retailers like Wal-Mart are planning to network a dynamic universe of shoppers in store at a given time allowing them to come together, ask questions, share reviews and offer feedback to each other on products.
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The meetings, which are free and open to the public, offer participants a chance to air their opinions about the Internet, ask questions and receive updates from Icann about the organization itself.
So in addition to pinning their own original content, ask them to re-pin yours and again offer them incentives and exclusives for doing this.
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Now I ask Members of Congress to offer your proposals and come up with a bipartisan solution to save these vital programs for our children and grandchildren.
They are not painters in the conventional sense for they do not aim to take paint to a blank canvas, ask you to see the perfect version of an imperfect thing, offer you a snapshot of something beautiful.
Listening to the community members, we offer what they ask for.
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.
The idea is that the students will then absorb all the wit and wisdom on offer and ask more questions, before disseminating it all to the rest of the new class through the raft of social media and interactive channels now available to them.
When discussing volunteering opportunities with a nonprofit, have a clear idea of what you can offer in terms of skills and time, but make sure to ask what the organization's needs are, says Allison Jones, an editor at Idealist.org, a site that lists volunteer and job opportunities with nonprofits.
Offer to talk again later when the emotions are not so raw, or ask a trained HR counselor to join you.
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My offer is very simple, which I will restate: I ask you to repeat the March 29, 2011 demonstration purported to show that your E-CAT unit had an output power of many times the input power through LENR (low energy nuclear reactions).
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When she comes back to the main room, the men ask that she finish the paperwork and offer her a soda while she does so.
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Ask BillGatesBill Gates what advice he'd offer the next U.S. president to improve American competitiveness and innovation, and he gives a wry chuckle.
Ask Bill Gates what advice he'd offer the next U.S. president to improve American competitiveness and innovation, and he gives a wry chuckle.
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