Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adam's rib never looked SO DAMN FINE." "Just ask President Clinton, hell tell you. It takes a woman. "I recently noticed these slogans on posters for the Fantastick Theatre Company's show "It Takes a Woman," which opens this weekend. The show is supposed to be about female empowerment and celebration. However, the posters consisted of other such enlightened slogans as "Gentlemen, commence drooling," and the coup de grace, "Women's line was never this convincing," implying that it is convincing because the women look...
...tried to tell him a little bit of what pro tennis is like," Tom Blake said. "I told him how tough...
...Sometimes the student is inspired by the topic to do a good job; other times, whether because of a lack of interest or a lack of time, the paper turns out worse than the student could have made it. But those who suffer from This Paper Sucks will always tell anyone who asks about their progress on the assignment that their paper--you guessed it--sucks. And after a while, they start believing it themselves...
This, of course, is a defense mechanism. If you tell everyone you aren't pleased with your own work and still receive a good grade the following week, you not only get to enjoy the fact that someone else has validated your worth, but you also have the opportunity to be pleasantly surprised. If you say you did a poor job on your paper and then receive a corresponding grade, you still "win," because you can then tell yourself that you were right. As long as the final determination of your paper's worth is out of your hands...
...Pentagon once again last week had to defend its "Don't ask, don't tell" policy. It was implemented in 1994, after a debate between the White House, which wanted to let gays serve openly, and Congress and the military, which did not. The compromise ostensibly protected gays in uniform so long as they didn't flaunt their sexual orientation. But the number of personnel kicked out of the service for being gay soared from 617 in 1994 to 997 last year. The Pentagon says that 80% of those removed in 1997 declared their homosexuality; they told. Gay-rights groups...