Word: lies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Back home, concerned that French prosecutors had done a lackluster job, as Tricaud gleefully suggested, the Justice Department scrambled last week to bolster the argument for extradition. The decision is scheduled for this Tuesday. "I spent 16 years on this. I'm not going to lie down now," DiBenedetto promised...
...antique furniture. "That doesn't sound very imposing," explains Halpert, "but it takes the strength of two to move it, an action we perform as seldom as possible." Though only two inches thick, the book's binding drips with metal ornamentation and decorative gilt. Houghton's two copies lie comfortably in custom-made cloth cases, so comfortably, in fact, that librarians hate to disturb them...
...over ice through a straw, Lewinsky not only didn't help her interrogator, the hapless Ed Bryant of Tennessee, but also left him with less of a case against the President than he had when the deposition began. She stood by her insistence that no one asked her to lie or offered her a job in exchange for her false affidavit, and refused to agree that the President was lying when his testimony contradicted hers, conceding only that her memory or interpretation differed from his. And she was blunt about why she was such an unhelpful witness. She said...
...discuss work. But while Sawyer's chili, which she ate with gusto, tasted fine, her guests got a meal spiked with salt. When she left the room, cameras taped staff members' denigrating comments. The stunt was designed for a segment exposing the fact that in social situations, people often lie. Upon learning of the ruse, some felt betrayed and one even contacted a lawyer. ABC killed the piece, denying Sawyer a major scoop on the possible existence of sycophancy...
...know if I can teach you how to get women. It depends what your makeup is: Are you a flirter, a player, a man who likes to lie when you speak...