Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...National Weather Service for underestimating the river after the melting of a record snowfall, but others said better information wouldn't have saved towns anyway. Phil Cogan, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Administration, stood on the banks of a new Grand Forks lake and shared the one truth taught him by countless disasters: "Mother Nature will find a way over, under or around anything you put in its path...
...threatened to spill the beans was found dead in a Dumpster; another body was thrown from a water tower; not only was pizza flung in the air in celebration, slices were smeared on the faces of the dead. None of those rumors were true. So what is the truth? "I can't comment on the motive," says Sussex County prosecutor Dennis O'Leary. "But I can tell you what it's not. There was no intent to rob. It was not an initiation. It was not a cult. None of the classic elements like revenge or greed seemed...
...hooker, brings vivacity and soul to Gasman's clever lyrics ("I'm getting too old/ For the oldest profession"), and the driving, up-tempo number Why Don't They Leave Us Alone turns the hookers and pimps into the most inspired chorus line in town. The Life may, in truth, be just another kind of Broadway hustle, but when the con men are as slick as these, you drop your money with a smile...
Given this information, it is not surprising that so many students have negative or indifferent feelings about the military. From what I have observed, though, these stereotypes do not reflect reality. The truth of the matter is this: Every day thousands of young sailors, soldiers and pilots work long hours at dangerous jobs all around the world for little money and even less recognition...
...which is often done without papers and without grades. In fact, all true learning is so accomplished, since learning only comes with understanding. We are no longer youth, so we gain nothing by mere mimicry, which not incidentally is the process induced by such things as Core final exams. Truth is not something to be copied from a textbook or taken from a teaching fellow. Rather, truth is found through the personalization of work...