Goldman Sachs was mortified when I began inquiring last week about its stake in America's leading Web site for prostitution ads.
But that is perhaps the most accurate statement that Apple's chief executive, Timothy D. Cook, could have made to lawmakers inquiring last week about how its creative financial techniques contributed to its low business tax payments.
When a reporter inquired last week, a Fox spokeswoman implored him to "separate expectations from the actual ratings".
He stopped in the doorway, tray in hand, looked around at the others, already at table, and meekly inquired, "May colored folks eat here?" Then, smiling broadly, he marched in and sat down.
Looking about his room he saw atop his bed, a card that inquired, "May we shine your shoes?" Atop his bureau he found a pin cushion stuck with pins; a questionaire asking his "frank opinion" of whether "the room clerk & desk staff were friendly... .. Two books lay on the bureau, gifts of the management.
Maureen Oltrogge, a Grand Canyon spokeswoman, said that a handful of visitors each year complain about them, but that it was not until the American Civil Liberties Union inquired last February that officials at the canyon sought counsel from regional Park Service officials in Denver and a Park Service lawyer in Santa Fe, N.M.
California Governor Jerry Brown signed the law banning salary history inquires last October.
When HuffPost inquired last month about the reports, NBC said it could "only offer a no comment at this point".
The Huffington Post first inquired last week about Halperin and Heilemann's bylines after sources familiar with the matter said management bristled at the latter's first piece for its use of profanity and anonymous quotations, both of which ran afoul of the company's strict style guide, The Bloomberg Way.
I didn't actually want those canned croissants I was inquiring about yesterday.
Drawing from the Institute for Scientific Information Web of Science database, they conducted a survey among U.S. scientists who had published a research article between 2001 and 2006, inquiring about the project, the size of the team, and how the work was organized.
