asker

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Fashion designer Kazna Asker is a British Muslim with Yemeni roots raised in Sheffield.

From BBC • Sep. 22, 2023

Lotfi Asker Zadeh was born on Feb. 4, 1921, in Baku, Azerbaijan, which was then a part of the Soviet Union.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2017

As economists John Asker, Alexander Ljungqvist and Joan Farre-Mensa have shown, privately owned U.S. firms devote almost twice the percentage of their assets to investment than publicly traded firms.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2015

In an impressive paper published in April 2013, Alexander Ljungqvist, Joan Farre-Mensa, and John Asker found that publicly traded firms systematically under-invest compared to privately held ones.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2014

“The Asker pays what he can afford, as you know. Kings have in fact come to the Foretellers; but not very often...”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin