His father refused to pay for the liberal arts education he wanted, so the gangling 17-year-old showed up at The Seattle Star, now closed, to ask for a job.
But if I get close to asking price for the Pruitt home in Idaho, I may buy these apartments back.
According to Ms. Wagner, homes with a view of Lake Constance and the Alps command prices as high as €5,500 to €7,000 per square meter, or $684 to $870 per square foot, close to asking prices for homes in fashionable districts of Munich, like Schwabing.
This year a group of small island states threatened by rising sea levels, led by Palau, came close to asking the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion on the responsibility of historic emitters for global warming.
Many estates take up to a year to sell, but when they do, Ms. Jaffee said, they go for close to asking price.
In Knokke, an affluent second-home market sometimes referred to as the St. Tropez of the North Sea, properties generally sell close to asking price, with little room for negotiation, said Stefaan Geerebaert, the manager of Immo Brown Knokke Zoute Real Estate Agency.
It sold for close to asking price in about two months.
In Madrid, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faced violence on the streets of the capital and growing talk of secession in Catalonia as he moves cautiously closer to asking Europe for a bailout, aware that such an action has cost other European leaders their jobs.
Violent protests in Madrid over expected austerity measures and increasing talk of secession in the wealthy Catalonia region raised pressure on the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, as he moved closer to asking euro zone policy makers for rescue money.
Items asked for the number of relatives and number of friends to whom one talks to at least once a month, with whom one feels at ease to talk with about private matters (confidants), and to whom one feels close enough to ask for help (SOS contacts; 0 = none, to 5 = nine or more).
But the biggest mistake of all is failure to close the sale -- to ask for what you want.
