If so, he asks them to sign a form agreeing to electronically communicate about health matters and giving him authority to discuss medical issues over email.

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Pollock isn't trained in architecture, so the questions he asks his friend tend to be questions you or I might ask if we met him, and because both of them are engaged in trying to create art in disciplines that are mostly about commerce, they find plenty of common ground.

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Sounding somewhat like majority counsel, he asks: And so, what triggered -- let's look at the chain of events -- the judge, the witness list came in, the judge's order came in.

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Insoo has a few hours to kill before going to Hakwon, a private special-subject school, so he calls up the owner of a PC Bang and asks for a ride.

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It's a way of binding ourselves, much as, in The Odyssey, Odysseus asks his men to lash him to the mast so he can guide the ship past the Sirens.

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Brotman is so convinced that long-term care insurance is critical for retirement planning that he asks clients who turn it down to sign a waiver that absolves his firm from fiduciary responsibility for the decision.

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We got into this crisis because Americans had too much debt, so why are we asking the banks to lend to increase our potential debt, he asks.

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So Mr. Bush doesn't shy from conclusions and he isn't embarrassed that he asks for and needs God's help.

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