Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seeing as that's not going to happen, I'll do my best to tell you about...
Schrempp, for his part, is house hunting in the Detroit suburbs. "I am learning that ultimately a company is people, nothing else, and I can handle both sides," he says. In fact, he ran a Mercedes truck subsidiary in Euclid, Ohio, during the 1980s. "I know when to tell the Germans to loosen up and when to tell the Americans, 'Look, we made a decision on Monday--wouldn't it be nice if it sticks on Tuesday?' If it is managed well, then we will be so much better than all the others...
...avoid HIV. We are a long way from reading, writing and arithmetic, and have been for some time. It was probably inevitable that we would ask schools to assume responsibility for teaching our kids to be decent human beings too. Parents are so busy these days, as they will tell you at every opportunity. Of course, they have time to worry aloud about the quality of their local schools. But character ed is evidence that our schools are worried about the quality of their local parents...
Look at Martin today, and you can tell he was a child star--he wears the spotlight like ordinary folks wear house slippers. Indeed, Martin got started early: at 12 he auditioned to join Menudo, a Latin singing group comprised of boys ages 12 to 16 whose roster rotated when members grew too old. Martin was rejected on his first try because he was too small and too young-looking. Martin tried out again. Rejected again. On the third try, he made it. It was an early sign: what Martin lacked in talent he made up for in pure doggedness...
...beard was blue--it is the color of both desire and melancholy, "the marvellous and the inexplicable." Now Warner has published a sequel, No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 435 pages; $35), about (mainly male) giants, ogres and devils and what they can tell us about society's fears...