Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...want a tax cut? The Republicans tell me their compromise combo platter, currently ambling toward a White House veto, is just what I?ve been dreaming about at night: a 1 percent reduction in income taxes and less taxes on what I?m saving for retirement. And the slashing of capital gains taxes and the so-called marriage penalty, well, I?m sure they?d come in handy if I had a stock portfolio and a wife (someday!). So what?s not to like...
...hour in downtown Tampa, Fla., and a team of paid petitioners is doing a brisk business signing up opponents of affirmative action. "White men love it," Gloria Brown, the bubbly grandmother heading up the petitioners, says with a laugh. "They might already have walked past me, but when I tell them it's anti-affirmative action, they come back and sign." But Brown is also getting plenty of signatures from white women, Hispanics and blacks...
...addiction-group sponsor. Dick recently completed his second stint in rehab and is awaiting judgment later this month for a DWI he received after crashing his car into a tree and trying to flee on foot. His image worries him so much that he wonders whether he should tell people he is in Disney's new kids' movie, Inspector Gadget. "If I tell them, maybe they're going to grab their kids and go running from the theater, screaming, covering their eyes," he says...
TIME's coverage of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century will culminate in December, when we will name the Person of the Century. To help the editors make the choice, we've asked a select group of people to tell us whom they would pick. The latest intriguing nominations...
...could be a manifesto for DAVID OGILVY's remarkable life. I met him in Venice, Italy, in 1986. I was stunned to find out that he knew who I was and what I had done. As we parted he said, "Pat, you have it in your heart. I can tell. But unless you're ready to fight for what you believe in, it won't matter." Today I hear those words often, always in his voice. David Ogilvy was far more than a Hall of Fame copywriter. He became an icon and a brand. His legacy will...