When Jason Giambi, who like Ventura is in his first season with the Yankees, was asked to name something he had learned about Williams, he smiled and said, "He sleeps a lot".
In 2004, a St . PaulPioneer Press staff writer named Richard Chin was asked to come up with something to fill space in an Easter Sunday feature section.
In early 1942, as our underprepared military began to mobilize for the great global effort to defend democracy, the composer Aaron Copland was asked to come up with something inspiring.
In agony, and with dignity having drained away, he was asking for something faster, something more.
When Ms. Chang, the Picasso show organizer, was asked by Langham Place to come up with something for the 2005 holiday season, she persuaded the developers to sign up the men of the "Urban Dream Capsule" -- acclaimed artists from Australia.
"I find the more plugged in people are, the cooler they are with being asked for something to be unplugged," she said.
Toward the end of the first episode, they're asked to do something with doubtful inspirational value: press an unlikely savory ingredient — squid, tripe and catfish are three examples — into the service of dessert.
Rowling explains: "You can probably imagine I have been asked to do something else with Harry Potter five times a week ever since the series ended.
There are times when I'm in a restaurant and I don't want a waiter to realize I can't bear what I was served, and I don't want to be asked "Was there something wrong with that?" So I've become pretty good at shoving most of an execrable pate under a lettuce leaf.
Approach B shows that you understand that you're asking for something with little to no return for your advisors (or at least not right off the bat).
