Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...largest of the three orchestras, so we tell [first-years] that we play some of the grander pieces," he says...
...didn't know he could tell a joke in themanner of Mark Twain," Bates said
This could skew the already tilting sex ratio even further in favor of boys. In the short term, such demographic shifts could cause enormous societal problems as men, for example, find it increasingly difficult to find women to marry. In the long term, however, both evolutionary and economic theories tell us that as girls become more scarce, they will become more highly valued, perhaps to the point at which more people will select for girls than against them...
...past taking much direction on these matters. At one low point, he complained that the only people sticking with him were the black members of Congress. It is a B-team White House now, with the best leaving and the ones who remain lacking the stature to tell the President what to do, much less how. Attempts to find a straight-talking TV lawyer to defend the President continue to fizzle, with three and then four candidates having refused the job. Of the current crowd, a former high-ranking White House official says, "They were all kind of standing around...
...more sexual detail than was necessary to prove his point, and at times ignored or discounted evidence that contradicts his case. Still, many Americans--even those who have long assumed Clinton was lying--will be appalled by the depths of the President's recklessness and deceit. Others will say, Tell us something we didn't know...