Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...figures on the unemployment rate I'm very troubled, because no one is seeing the real problem in this country. Someone needs to tell Bill Clinton that some of the most talented people in the country aren't working simply because they were born before 1950." Someone should convey the same message to employers who moan about how hard it is to find qualified help in today's tight labor markets...
While Lyons is unable to convey much of any deep sentiment from any of his cookie-cutter characters, Dog Days is not without some positive aspects. Lyons possesses a breezy and enjoyable style, although it is not particularly complex or challenging. Again, maybe the one-sidedness of the characters stems more from the lack of any sort of complication in the plot or of the novel as a whole. Lyons has not made much of an effort to broaden or expand his characters--each is as constant and predictable as the weather in a coolly air-conditioned room...
Through an editing error, the letter below was printed in an abbreviated form [LETTERS, June 8]. To convey the writer's viewpoint precisely, we are publishing the original letter in full...
When my two bulging suitcases failed to arrive in Paris, lost in transit someplace between Boston, New York and Amsterdam, I became another number for the baggage retrieval services. Jetlagged and wearied from flight delays and air turbulence, with my rusty French I tried to convey to the unsympathetic baggage retrieval workers that I desperately needed my suitcases. I filled out my address, identified my luggage from a chart of pocketbooks, duffel bags and suitcases and was sent home with a shrug and callous wait-and-see attitude. I remained cool for the first 24 hours, fully confident that...
With "The Voice" Sinatra was able to convey the one emotion that singers of my generation, and even my parents' baby-boomer generation, were never able to achieve: the pathos, bittersweet joy, hurt and exhilaration of love. ROBBY BUEGLER Sacramento, Calif...