Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even worse is that when they're caught, the guilty complain about their sentences. Hernandez fussed and hollered because the league took away 10 percent of his salary. Quick subtraction will tell you that Hernandez is still pulling in about $1.8 million-a-year. Not bad for a would-be felon. It sure beats a prison softball game in which you solidly slap an extra-base hit up left-center field only to discover that you can't round first base because both of your ankles are shackled...
...Hatfield says that her calls to Fly Club are to tell them when events are scheduled, calling them "simply a matter of courtesy." She says the Fly Club uses its own land for functions, not the University's, and "there have been simultaneous events. "A line of trees separates the Fly Club's land from the University property...
Advice from the sidelines. As the contest between Bush and Dole turned nasty, Mario Cuomo told Democratic National Chairman Paul Kirk: "Tell your candidates to go out on the stage and stand there holding hands and humming The Star-Spangled Banner. Hum it -- don't sing it, because then they would have to open their lips...
Helen Kelly understands this. She says she can tell the best booksellers and buyers when they walk into her store. "The really good ones don't look you in the eye. They look at the shelves and at the books," Kelly says...
After the Harvard-Yale football game, a drunken Yale fan hopped on one of the Harvard buses and proceeded to tell the Crimson players how well they had played, what classy individuals they were...