Word: tell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which programs he proposed to slash and by how much; Carter politely replied that he was seeking the Republicans' ideas. When Kemp asked yet a third time, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker somewhat testily remarked: "Look, Jack, the President told you twice he's not going to tell you." Only then did Kemp give...
...space station to such bits of space junk as an astronaut's glove, stray cameras, and even nuts and bolts. In the coming years NORAD's job will become still harder. By the mid-1980s, the number of orbital objects may double, making it more difficult to tell what is up, and whether it belongs to friend...
...concentration camp in the Philippines, American civilian prisoners and their Japanese captors held a party in 1942 for some departing guards, sharing sukiyaki and singing Auld Lang Syne. "They really liked each other," Prisoner Natalie Crouter wrote in her diary. "The pity of it-that our enemies should tell us this-that prisoners in a prison camp have given them more fun and friendliness than they ever had before. How it lights up the poverty, the barrenness of their past . . ." For one night, she wrote, the Americans and Japanese "were just boys again, sorry for the mess we are mixed...
Typically, the opponents in a case will tell their stories. Then the mediators will try to devise a way to lead the parties toward a compromise. Says Mediator Lamont Montigue, a cook: "You don't settle the situation. You let the agreement come from them." When it does, the former opponents sign a written settlement. All other records are destroyed, on the theory that confidentiality will help cement the deal...
...from Louisiana have helped to turn back the aggressors. There is, however, still a dispute between two of the tank drivers and an umpire, who has disallowed one of their theoretical kills. If this was a real war, they complain, they would be dead. He retorts: "You mean to tell me if this was a real war, you'd belivin...