In that case, then, you might ask, whatever happened to steroid testing of high school athletes?

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So, you might ask, how do you determine whether a deal is real or not?

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What - on earth - you might ask, does this have to do with the ONS?

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You might ask why it's so important to get to the bottom of this.

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You might ask yourself: Why do we need a study to report on a government study?

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So, you might ask, what does this have to do with personal finance?

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But who, you might ask, is buying this debt at these prices with default so close?

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You might ask why, then, do academics pursue the career in the first place?

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At this point you might ask: Where in the world have rich people willingly paid more taxes?

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Okay, how about if we file a separate claim in my name against the customer, you might ask.

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Since I claim an ability only to expect, not to predict, you might ask what the point of this exercise is.

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Why, you might ask, as a man do I feel like I have anything to say on this subject?

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Given that Canada produces less than 2% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, you might ask why it matters.

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And what did Lancome do in the advertising, having that kind of material to work with, you might ask?

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What on earth, you might ask, does MTFG see in such a partner?

ECONOMIST: Swallow hard

So why, you might ask, would India choose this moment to go nuclear?

ECONOMIST: A waste of nationalist pride

For example, if I am in your Club you might ask my opinion and actually pay attention when I answer.

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What, you might ask, do all of these things have in common?

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You might ask why competition among hospitals has not held prices down.

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Here you might ask: How can we have the inflation half of stagflation when unemployment is high and factories are operating below capacity?

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So, what, you might ask, is wrong with Sokol taking a little bit of the action ahead of his typically successful dealmaking for Berkshire Hathaway?

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While wandering through an attractive neighbourhood, you might ask your mobile device about apartments for rent nearby, the crime rate, local amenities, and so on.

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You might ask, 'Why can't the water company just go into tick-over mode now and let us have bills that don't go up any more?

BBC: South West Water customers asked how cash should be spent

How much, you might ask, do other American banks rely on such stakes, or on other capital-markets business that they may be ill-equipped to handle?

ECONOMIST: The bigger they are

So you might ask, why accept even a small risk of such a dreadful outcome, if it can be made much smaller at moderate cost?

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So you might ask economists whether they agree with that assessment.

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Why, you might ask, would the UK want to walk away from all that wealth - give up the goose that lays so many golden eggs?

BBC: Should Britain let go of London?

Thrown in to the real world it would do less well with context-laden questions you might ask, far from home, about your flight delayed by storms.

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So why, you might ask, has he been targeted now?

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But why enter the race now, you might ask?

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