Word: tells
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What did you think she was there to do? I thought she was there to tell me that her little sister was having an affair with Joe. That's what she [told] me. She looked so nervous and she was so young-looking. She was 17, and I was 37. She just looked like a little kid. I was incredulous. I wasn't mad or upset. It was broad daylight and [noon] on a Tuesday, and lawnmowers are going and cars are driving by, and she's telling me her little sister is having an affair. There was never...
Upbeat, heartfelt tales about experiences with electricians, carpenters and plumbers are as rare as good news about the economy or Jon and Kate Gosselin. Shoddy workmanship, cost overruns, rampant dishonesty - anyone who has been through a kitchen renovation can tell you how truly wretched life can be. And that was if you could find a skilled craftsman to handle a project. In flusher times, it was darn near impossible to hire anyone but a fly-by-nighter to fix a faucet, let alone build a master suite, for under six figures...
...Warren, who apparently was our warm-up act. He did not make me laugh once. Then as the full house of 160 took their seats in a small meeting room next to the church, we gathered to pray about our performance. Preshow praying, as most professional comedians will tell you, is not quite as confidence-building as shots of Cuervo. (See TIME's 2008 cover on Rick Warren...
...crime stats aren't all sterling: as the recession set in, robberies, for example, spiked 27% in 2008 and have risen 10% year to date through late June. But numbers don't tell the whole story. On June 27, a 17-year-old boy was murdered on Martin Luther King Boulevard, near one of Newark's spanking-new affordable-housing communities. "Whenever there's a murder in Newark, the city almost defaults to the terrible memories," says Clement Price, a history professor at Rutgers University, Newark, who has lived in the city for 40 years. "The statistics become meaningless...
...numbers, however, don't tell the whole story because the start of the 2010 model year is only a couple of months away - it officially kicks off Oct. 1 - and once that happens the sea of 2009 models now sitting on dealer lots will suddenly depreciate. (See the most important cars of all time...