Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's never been a demonstration in favor of tax increases," said Johnston, a former state legislator. "But we'll have to be calm and tell the people the reality of the budget crunch--that this is a progressive tax increase...
...tell you that I am very opposed to apartheid, but the divestment issue is very complicated," Hope said. "I certainly think it is something we [members of the Corporation] have to address...
...want to participate in any unfriendlytakeovers," Scott asserted, but, he added, "what'sunfriendly, it's a little hard to tell...
...goes horribly. Dwight is a secretive bully who is either at his companions' feet or at their throats. With young Tobias, it is no contest. The boy is given demeaning, pointless tasks, constantly berated and subjected to drunken, careering rides up hairpin mountain roads. He could, of course, tell his mother about this abuse and possibly dissuade her from marrying Dwight, but he does not: "I had come to feel that all of this was fated, that I was bound to accept as my home a place I did not feel at home in, and to take as my father...
...polite and well groomed and behave yourself, then you've got nothing to worry about. I'm stunned at the number of people in show business who come on and don't seem to get that what we want from them is a performance, you know, tell us three stories out of your life. Anybody who has been on this planet 20 years and doesn't have three stories, well, they should re-examine what they're doing...