Using the average wage of $22 an hour as the value of workers' time, and assuming that people who could answer more questions would ask more of them, Mr. Varian estimated that a search engine might be worth about $500 annually to the average worker.
If the safety of the surgery were better understood, perhaps more patients would ask their family and friends for help.
But Marilyn Moon, a Medicare expert at the Urban Institute, said that Mr. Bush's interim plan would fall short by its fourth and final year because more people would ask for help and drug prices would probably continue to rise.
Both boys said they only wished more people would ask them questions about Ashley Eckles, their 4-year-old sister, and about their grandparents, Luther and LaRue Treanor, who all died while visiting the Social Security office.
"Can I do two more?" Mr. McCain would ask.
And, in order to make these women feel more comfortable, he would ask a female executive or assistant to start those meetings with him".
More often he would ask for it using a cryptic word he invented, "dosh," which could mean "music," "guitar" or "Let's watch 'The Last Waltz' right now".
More philosophically, many would ask how his mathematics relates to his natural philosophy?
As he became more frail, O'Reily would ask certain priests to accompany him when he travelled, among whom was the Dominican prior Robert Spence.
The "more guns" crowd would ask us all to give up the every day freedoms we take for granted -- the casual unarmed walks at the mall, or the nights at the movies, free from fear and violence.
