Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...think it's misleading to tell seniors that their money makes a meaningful impact," he said...
Grow older, grow wiser. Last Shopping Period I had everything down to a science. Master scanner of syllabi and shuffler of classes, I could tell within minutes whether a class was right for me. I'd absorbed enough departmental and extracurricular hearsay to pick classes practically before the lectures began...
...these food police who would tell us so forcefully what to eat and drink? Perhaps the best known--and best behaved--is the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington. The CSPI earned its biggest headlines for its 1994 expose of movie-theater popcorn, a study that revealed the supposedly healthy snack to be swollen with calories and swimming in fat. Dieters were stunned, and many movie houses quickly switched to lighter oils in their popping machines--earning the CSPI kudos...
...ambivalence left. During the interview he gets a phone call from a bookstore in his hometown asking him to do a reading. He seems rattled. He's doing a book tour but doesn't relish reading the work; in fact, he says he hasn't seen a copy. I tell him I have one. Would he like to see it? "No! I asked them not to send it to me." But then: "Does it look good?" The question will have to wait for the tour, for when his eulogy to his parents rolls off the presses, in boxes and boxes...
...start the day without a steaming cup of coffee? Growing dependence on that morning caffeine jolt has made the U.S. one of the biggest coffee consumers in the world, swallowing about one-third of the world's coffee production. Is that good or bad? Hard to tell. Decades of conflicting research about the potential benefits and harm of the popular bean have created so much confusion that most coffee drinkers have long since given up trying to sort...