Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...continued to appear in the gossip columns and got a job hosting another bad TV show, this one for the Lifetime network. It was another non-starter called the "Great American TV Poll." The poll questions ranged from "How old is too old for a miniskirt?" to "Would you tell your best friend if you knew he or she had a cheating spouse...
Wright said it was still too early to tell if Princeton would consider another aid increase in order to keep pace...
...while the discovery of fiction in several national publications is pretty unusual, we should not look at those disparate troubles as the symptoms of a more widespread disease in today's newsrooms--a few bad apples don't necessarily tell us much about the rest of the bunch. The real scandal, at least as far as journalism is concerned, was the very thing that kept those troubles in several newspapers and magazines from attracting more attention: the press's painful over-coverage of the great presidential pitfall. And that over-coverage was made possible by a substantial threat to journalism...
...blithely indifferent to a host of issues his legislation would raise: Overseas sites, for example, which are beyond U.S. control. Or the lack of a national decency standard, which means any local jurisdiction could make up its own rules. Or the fact that there's no sure way to tell someone's age online. "Unless you make minors go around with an Internet ID that says 'I'm a kid' -- which would be great for pedophiles -- there's no way of verifying who you are," says McCullagh, who says the ACLU will challenge any such law as overbroad and vague...
...also need to think about why we are so outraged when President Clinton lies about sex, and simply accept it when other politicians look us in the eye and lie to us about substantially much more important matters. Are we to believe it when Republican members of Congress tell us that they don't want statistical sampling included in the 2000 Census because they are concerned with the exact phraseology in the Constitution? Or are they really concerned that accurately counting millions of minorities left out last time around would hurt their chances on election...