Word: tell
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...objective still is maintaining our ‘AAA’ rating,” Shore said. “Before we take out any more debt we’d be in conversation with the ratings agencies to tell them our story and to make them comfortable...
...haphazardly culled lyrics often resemble an incongruous mishmash of words that aspire to poetry, but largely remain trite and poorly-culled from the original text. Even if one didn’t know the lyrics were patchworked from a novel, it’s easy to tell that the songs are at least somewhat internally disconnected, as each tune fails to tell a complete story and doesn’t quite form a lyrically unified whole...
...patient comes in complaining of a headache, a neurologist who doesn’t find any symptoms after examination can no longer tell the patient, “I don’t find anything serious but you should come back in a few months if you’re still having problems,” Ropper says. Instead, for legal reasons, MRI images are taken to ensure that there really is nothing wrong and then every detail of the encounter must be logged electronically...
...doctor is often not even looking you in the eye, but he’s turned sideways and typing into a computer while you are trying to tell him something very personal, frightening, and important to you,” Samuels says...
...think the danger in medicine is doctors being captured from within and turning into something else, but the patients can’t tell by looking because they still wear white coats and have stethoscopes around their necks,” says Samuels. “When you go to see the doctor, you expect a person who will basically do anything possible to help you, who will listen to you and care about you—you don’t expect a person looking into a computer screen...