Word: tells
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...problem is that Steele's credibility will become an issue too. She told a Newsweek reporter chasing the Willey story in 1997 that a distressed Willey had come to her house on the night of the alleged White House incident to tell her about it. But she called the reporter before the story was published to say she had lied to him at Willey's request. Prosecutors in Starr's office asked Steele to support Willey's story in any way she could. She didn't have to say that the alleged approach was unwanted, or even when it happened...
...like that? By the time Roger Enrico walked into the chief executive's suite at PepsiCo headquarters in Purchase, N.Y., three years ago, the company's performance had detached itself from its image as a vaunted marketing maverick that launched the cola wars in the '80s. The numbers tell all: in the U.S., Pepsi sells a single soda for every three Cokes. The troops were as confused and demoralized as Enrico had seen in his 27 years with the company--"shell-shocked," says Phil Marineau, who arrived in 1997 as president of Pepsi-Cola...
Shah says he phoned his ex-wife's father and asked, "Would you please call Ellen and tell her not to panic? I know how she feels because I know how I felt when it happened to me." Dever, according to her Swiss attorney, Joerg Blum, "is O.K., but of course very upset and anxious...
...runners and lifting underdogs. Gore has the state's top 100 Democrats more or less locked up; after that, most folks are up for grabs. Some 400 have joined Bradley's New Hampshire campaign, and his events around the state draw full houses, though it's too early to tell the curious from the committed. He's performing well on the stump; after his thoughtful speech at the state party convention in Manchester, an internist named Dick Tartow, 67, who had volunteered for Gore just two weeks before, yanked off his GORE 2000 button and replaced it with one that...
LUCAS: The importance of, say, friendship and loyalty. Most people look at that and say, "How corny." But the issues of friendship and loyalty are very, very important to the way we live, and somebody has got to tell young people that these are very important values. Young people are still learning. They're still picking up ideas. They are still using these ideas to shape the way they're going to conduct their lives...