Still, you didn't ask me what my preferences were, and I'm going to do my best to answer the question that you did ask.

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"Glad you didn't ask me, " quipped mission commander Curtis Brown Jr.

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You didn't ask her?

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You can argue that Detroit didn't ask those questions strongly enough or sincerely enough.

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Peggy Lee has been administering school lunch programs long enough to remember the days when ladies in hair nets and stockings didn't ask you what you wanted to eat.

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It's so obvious, in fact, that you might well ask why McCain didn't use it earlier.

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Or because one of your competitors got in touch and offered them a lower rate, or something they wanted that they didn't think to ask you for.

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The paperwork, if complete, may show that your parents at some point transferred policy ownership to you. (A call to the insurance company can confirm this.) If they didn't, you'll have to ask them to transfer it or, if they've died, trace ownership through their estate.

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But for those skeptics who refuse to believe the Recovery Act has done any good, who continue to insist that the bill didn't work, I'd ask you to take that argument up with Blake and his employees.

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It covers just about everything you wanted to know about germs, but probably didn't know to ask.

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