Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mutter something like, "I'm sure the Trans America Athletic Conference is a couple of years away from putting a team in the Final Four," but your confidence is ebbing...
...believer in making sure that people know what's on the agenda," Demong said. "As long as people know what's going on and they have a chance for input, concerns tend to dissipate...
Koskotas' first ambition, he says, was to enlarge the Bank of Crete. Private banks routinely had to wait at least a year for authorization to open a single branch. But the Bank of Crete opened about 50 branches in four years, and licenses were granted for an additional 20. Sure of his political shield, Koskotas was unafraid to violate banking laws and withdraw huge sums of cash at will. If Koskotas worried aloud about audits, Papandreou was always reassuring. "So long as I am here," Koskotas says Papandreou told him, "you never have to worry...
...that's about it when you go looking for dirt on Sam Nunn. Oh, sure, he's accepted some modest honorariums from defense contractors, and Perry and Georgia are not hurting for military contracts, and there was also the time, when he was 26, that Nunn got loaded at a party and sideswiped a car and pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and paid a $100 fine. That one made the papers again last week when Tower partisans were dredging up anything they could find "on" Nunn. "Well, that is something, isn't it?" says a senior...
...poor Turkish peasants are being paid to go to London and give up a kidney for transplant, the British Prime Minister said that "the sale of kidneys or any organs of the body is utterly repugnant." Emergency legislation is now being prepared for swift approval by Parliament to make sure that capitalism does not perform its celebrated magic in the market for human organs...