Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meinert responded to The Hatchet in an e-mail, saying, "I can tell you that I am very sorry for these actions and understand that they demonstrated poor judgement and character. I have spent much time contemplating these events and can tell you that I have made every effort since then not to repeat and learn from these mistakes...
Bush's ability to focus at the right time has yielded such results as tort reform in Texas. The bill had been languishing in the legislature in 1995. When state senator David Sibley, the G.O.P. author of the legislation, went to see Bush to tell him it was dead, Bush invited him to dinner at the Governor's mansion. Until then, the Governor had kept his distance from legislative machinations. That night he weighed in. With Sibley by his side, Bush got on the phone with the Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Bob Bullock, and in a matter of minutes hammered...
...beer and wine in supercenters just as they do at competitors' stores of a similar type. Yet booze will remain verboten in fuddy-duddy old Wal-Mart discount stores. Explains Glass: "What's the difference between selling in a supercenter and a Wal-Mart? I can't tell you I can give you a definite answer. But I can tell you that I have a rationale for it." Nevertheless, within the company and without, there was muttering that Sam--Wal-Mart's late founder, Sam Walton--wouldn't stand for such a thing. Wrong, says Glass. Sam knew better than...
...judge's findings of fact are often a good indication of how far he's willing to go. It's like looking at a construction site in its early stages, says George Washington University law professor William Kovacic. "The depth of the excavation and the strength of the foundation tell you how big the building is going to be," he says. Jackson, as Kovacic puts it, has poured a lot of concrete...
...EgyptAir Flight 990 could prove the most important. Investigators at the National Transportation Safety Board lab in Washington are examining the cockpit voice recorder, recovered late Saturday evening. The recorder only contains 30 minutes of cockpit conversations before it starts taping over itself, but that should be enough to tell the story. It was less than 40 minutes into its New York City to Cairo run when the Boeing 767-300 ER dropped from 33,000 to 16,700 ft. in less than 40 seconds, paused, quickly climbed upwards for more than a mile, then fell towards the waters...