So I guess it depends who you ask and when you ask, but support has always been more in the majority for the space program.

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One of the virtues of a Mac that I have always heralded to anyone who might ask was their parental controls.

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As Mr Fletcher explains, opinions differed, but there were always those who argued that to ask too much was to put the process of conversion at risk.

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If some critics say that Sandberg believes too strongly in the power of women asserting themselves, there are friends who ask whether she herself may not always be aggressive enough.

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"Andrew is one of those guys, no matter what I ask him, it's always yes, " says Steven Kolb, who runs the Council of Fashion Designers of America.

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But instead of stating this boldly and clearly, we collude with the medical profession who, at an unconscious level, are always only too pleased to increase the ambit of their own expertise, and ask of our legislators that suicide be rendered simply another medical procedure.

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