Word: tellingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Illinois Republican, noted after introducing Bush at a rally in Peoria last week, "Congress will have some say about it." Whether or not Republicans retain their majority, it's unlikely that a sharply divided House and Senate would pass either plan in its current form. But don't tell Bush and Gore that; they're having too much fun jumping hip deep into piles of make-believe money...
...need to get the message out now and tell people before they get married that it's O.K. to fight. Right now we're sending people out onto the football field and not telling them the rules." --Diane Sollee, director of the Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education, quoted by the Associated Press...
...Masatoshi Ono, will also be there. Both are sure to incur the wrath of politicians fed up with what they view as stonewalling. "This whole thing stinks," said Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. "You can't tell me someone at Firestone or Ford didn't know they had serious problems with these tires long before the body count started to rise...
...tests and standards are a necessary fact of life. They protect us - most of the time - from inept drivers, hazardous products and shoddy professionals. In schools too, exams play a constructive role. They tell public officials whether new school programs are making a difference and where new investments are likely to pay off. They tell teachers what their students have learned - and have not. They tell parents how their children are doing compared with others their age. They encourage students to exert more effort...
...That was a way on my part to focus attention on the main character. I found early on that, when trying to tell slightly more complicated stories, if I took the regular old approach of simply showing a room full of people with everybody's face, for some reason the experience of the story got kind of confused. You were identifying with all these different viewpoints in the room. It seems like some of the best known cartoon characters end up being these peculiar, almost sexless, baby-like men - bald, pink men, like Charlie Brown, and Tintin and Skeezix...