The blank look in his eyes, and the distracted hesitancy Mr. Birney brings to Larry's clipped responses to Steve's pressing inquiries, attest to the serious disorientation taking place beneath Larry's buttoned-down surface.
In an editorial in this week's Science magazine, climate scientist Michael Mann and I explore this problem and ask a pressing question: how do we balance public accountability with the privacy essential for scientific inquiry?
Among the most pressing inquiries: Why and how did this happen?
When the Katie Show announced that Ed Sheeran would be making an appearance to answer fans' questions, hundreds of Sheerios wrote in with their most pressing inquiries, which Ed answered as part of Katie Couric's "Social Wall" special.
And with federal investigators pressing their inquiry into the activities of the senator and some of his 1996 campaign staff members, the event he held tonight in Teaneck was a study in lowered expectations: aides to Mr. Torricelli had said he would be delighted to raise more than the $450,000 he collected at a similar event in February.
That was just one of the stunning revelations made during the Senate hearing on tax subsidies to the oil industry which featured the 6 most powerful CEOs BP, Shell, Chevron, Conoco-Phillips and Exxon-Mobil all sitting like ducks in a row giving the stiff-arm to pressing unfriendly inquiries from a host of Democratic Senators.
Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, had been among those pressing for an inquiry.
Mr. Holt is doing the right thing by pressing for an inquiry.
Handley and the woman are pressing the public inquiry to examine the work of private security firms.
Mr. King has cited security concerns in pressing for an inquiry into the release of information about the May 1 Bin Laden raid in Pakistan.
Confronted with company e-mails that suggested that he knew more than he had acknowledged, he continued to deflect blame but apologized for not pressing his own inquiry sooner.
