The warhead Hellfire, is not ready to be on Predator


PDBs were not routinely briefed to congressional leaders, though this item could have been in some other intelligence briefing.

Congressional leaders may or may not have been aware of this PDB.


Congressional leaders received briefings at least once a week.


It is certain that everyone in congress had been informed of the PDBs.


There is a dispute regarding Ashcroft's interest in Pickard's briefings about the terrorist threat situation.

Ashcroft said the briefings weren't worth his time.


Ashcroft wanted to listen to the briefings over and over again


Ashcroft was interesting in the briefings.


These workers were not trapped, yet unlike most occupants on the upper floors, they had chosen not to descend immediately after impact.

All occupants on the upper floors immediately descended upon impact.


Some workers on the upper floors chose not to descend right after impact.


Shakur has been identified by Spanish authorities as Farid Hilali.

Shakur didn't go by any other names, because he wasn't very famous.


Shakur had an alias that went unnoticed for years.


For the two companies and their actions, see FDNY interview 22, Battalion 28 (Jan.

Each company consisted of twenty three fire fighters.


No interviews were recorded concerning the actions of the fire department.


There were several companies of FDNY present at the time.


23, 2004 (nearly two-thirds of the known leaders of al Qaeda had been killed or captured).

Al Qaeda was a relatively flat organization that was still able to function with minimal leadership.


By 2004 the US had still not killed or captured a single al Qaeda leader.


Most al Qaeda leadership had been eliminated by 2004.


The profile was derived from information on the Passenger Name Record and did not include factors such as race, creed, color, or national origin.

Passenger profiles were derived almost entirely based on passenger skin color.


Race and creed were not factors used to develop passenger profiles.


After 9/11, Motassadeq admitted to German authorities that Shehhi had asked him to handle matters in a way that would conceal Shehhi's absence.

Motassadeq told everyone Shehhi was gone.


Motassadeq was supposed to hide that Shehhi was missing from New York City.


Motassadeq was supposed to hide that Shehhi was missing.


For the fire alarm, see PANYNJ interview 10 (June 16, 2004); PANYNJ interview 7 (June 2, 2004).

Fire alarms were not installed in the building until 2008.


Information about the fire alarm was recorded in June.


The fire alarm was disabled due to an electrical short.


Ajaj had entered the United States on a B-2 tourist visa at New York City on September 9, 1991.


Ajaj was on a tourist visa when he went to the US.


Ajaj's tourist visa was supposed to last 6 months.


Civilians who called the Port Authority police desk located at 5 WTC were advised to leave if they could.

The Port Authority said people should run as far away as possible.


The Port Authority told people to leave 5 WTC.


The Port Authority told them all to stay put.


They were positioned around the mezzanine lobby level of the North Tower, directing civilians leaving stairwells A and C to evacuate down an escalator to the concourse.

They directed civilians at the mezzanine level to take an escalator to the concourse.


They directed dozens of civilians at the mezzanine level to take an escalator to the concourse.


They told the civilians to take an elevator to a higher floor.


FBI report, Flight #93 'No Show' Passengers from 9/11/01, Sept. 18, 2001.


There were passengers that didn't show up for Flight 93.


Rice and others recalled the President saying, I'm tired of swatting at flies.

Rice always took notes of everything the President said.


Rice had never heard the President say anything.


Rice remembered that the President expressed his annoyance.


For the delayed dispatch, see FDNY records, computer-aided dispatch report, alarm box 8087, Sept. 11, 2001, 09:03:00-09:10:02.

Computer aided dispatch reports were prepared for September 11.


Computer aided dispatch systems were not in place in New York until 2008.


These dispatch reports were delayed because of network disruptions.


Mihdhar complained about life in the United States.

Mihdhar complained to several close friends in Pakistan.


Mihdhar was constantly telling friends that the US was just fantastic.


The US was not exactly to Mihdhar's liking.


Intelligence report, 1996 Atef study on airplane hijacking operations, Sept. 26, 2001.


The study about hijackings warned about al Qaeda.


There was a study about airplane hijackings in 1996.


For Ballinger's warnings, see Ed Ballinger interview (Apr. 14, 2004).

Ed Ballinger issued several warning during his interview.


Ed Ballinger refused to provide any information to interviewers.


He warned the interviewer that there would be an attempted attack in May.


In deputies meetings at the end of June, Tenet was tasked to assess the prospects forTaliban cooperation with the United States on al Qaeda.

At one point there was consideration of cooperating with the Taliban against al Qaeda.


By the end of June the US and Taliban had allied themselves against al Qaeda.


This plan was abandoned because the Taliban wanted large amounts of money and weapons for cooperation.


In some ways joint work has gotten better, and in some ways worse.

Funding for joint operations has increased, but administrative overhead has also increased.


Since then joint work has improved in every way.


Today, joint work is different than it used to be.


The call to the UAE was originally reported by the CIA on May 16.

No agencies ever reported the call to the UAE.


Other agencies reported the call to the UAE on May 17.


The CIA reported the call to the UAE on May 16.


Bandar al Hazmi continued his training at Arizona Aviation with intermittent trips home to Saudi Arabia, before departing the United States for the last time in January 2000.

Bandar al Hazmi came to the US 18 times.


Bandar al Hazmi never traveled to the US.


For the necessity of moving from need-to-know to need-to-share, see James Steinberg testimony, Oct. 14, 2003.

James Steinberg testified that more sharing was needed.


On-duty ladder companies consisted of a captain or lieutenant and five firefighters

Ladder companies in other cities often contained a as many as 8 members.


Ladder companies were always commanded by a captain.


There were typically six people assigned to each ladder company.


The series also included Operation Infinite Resolve, a variety of proposed follow-on strikes on al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan.

One of these plans involved bombing seven different suspected safe houses.


There were several plans drawn up for follow-on strikes against al Qaeda.


In 1998, Clarke chaired an exercise designed to highlight the inadequacy of the solution.

Clarke wanted people to realize the solution wasn't working.


Clarke wanted to show people that the immigration policy was failing.


Clarke was certain that everything was working perfectly.


The General Accounting Office looked into the gun story and was unable to corroborate it.

Other departments were also unable to confirm the gun story.


The General Accounting Office confirmed that the gun story was 100% true.


The General Accounting Office was unable to confirm the gun story.


Upon hearing that the camp was to be closed, he and others traveled to al Faruq camp near Kandahar, where they received more training.

10,000 people were trained near Kandahar.


There were no camps anywhere near Kandahar.


Numerous officers responded in order to help injured civilians and to urge those who could walk to vacate the area immediately.

In total, twenty seven officers responded to the incident.


The officers tried to clear as many people from the area as they could.


In the interests of promoting candor and protecting privacy, we agreed not to identify most individuals we interviewed.

Full biographical information for each interview subject will be made available on request.


The names of most of the interview subjects will not be published.


We interviewed a total of fifteen subjects for this report.


Imagination is not a gift usually associated with bureaucracies.

All bureaucracies are highly imaginative.


Bureaucracies aren't usually thought to be imaginative.


Some bureaucracies might be a bit imaginative.


The FBI legal attach�'s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneapolis case agent on the telephone.


The FBI isn't allowed to operate in France.


The FBI opened an office in Paris in 1925.


Attorney's Office or the judge refused, the FISA Court might reject an application for a FISA warrant on the grounds that the agents were attempting to make an end run around the criminal process.

The FISA Court can reject warrant applications.


The FISA Court must grant all warrant applications, no matter what.


The FISA Court rejects about half the warrant applications they get.


Jane,Dave, and an FBI analyst who was on detail to the CIA's Bin Ladin unit went to New York on June 11 to meet with the agents about the Cole case.

The FBI analyst never spoke about the case because it was too upsetting.


The FBI analyst talked to seven agents about the Cole case.


The FBI analyst went to New York to talk to the agents.


In early May 1996, the CIA received intelligence that Bin Ladin might be leaving Sudan.

Bin Ladin had reservations at a hotel resort in Greece for a conference at this time.


The CIA believed that Bin Ladin would leave Sudan as early as May.


The CIA was certain that Bin Ladin would be staying in Sudan for several years.


For a record of the exchange between John and Dave, see CIA emails, Dave to John, May 17, 18, 24, 2001; CIA email, Richard to Alan, identification of Khallad, July 13, 2001.

Dave sent John exactly one email on May 18, 2001.


Dave sent an email to John on May 17, 2001.


Dave was on vacation in the entire month of May, so did not send any emails.


The ultimate recipient in Pakistan would then go to the Pakistani hawaladar and receive his money, in rupees, from whatever money the Pakistani hawaladar has on hand.

The Pakistani hawaladar would give the recipient 5,000 rupees.


The final recipient would be paid by the Pakistani hawaladar.


The ultimate recipient would need to travel to Turkey to get his money.


By taking advantage of them all, we need not depend on any one point in the system to do the whole job.

If we extract them all we can complete the whole operation.


We may have trouble getting an edge on some aspects but it should not be that difficult overall.


We must rely on only one piece of the system .


On KSM's assistance to al Qaeda, see Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 12, 2003 (two reports).

The Intelligence reports on the KSM are over 500 pages long.


There are no documents containing information about the KSM.


There are reports from July 12, 2003 detailing information on KSM's assistance to al Qaeda.


The Washington Center's controllers were looking for the flight, but they were not told to look for primary radar returns.

The controllers had seen the flight earlier.


The controllers were not looking for primary radar returns.


The controllers were told to check the primary radar returns first.


Because these names were watchlisted with the Thai authorities, we cannot yet explain the delay in reporting the news.

The Thai authorities had watchlisted the names.


There is an easy explanation for the delayed reports.


There were hundreds of names that the Thai authorities had watchlisted.


Floor-to-ceiling windows in the northwest corner of the West Street level of the lobby had been blown out

Amazingly, not a single window was broken in the entire building.


It took work crews more than two weeks to replace all the the broken windows.


Many large windows were destroyed in the corner of the building.


He was found to have confederates on both sides of the border.

He had influence on both sides of the border.


He only had confederates on one side of the border.


He was well-liked by all of the confederates.


Hezbollah officials in Beirut and Iran were expecting the arrival of a group during the same time period.

An anonymous tipster had tipped Hezbollah officials off about the group's arrival.


The group was able to arrive in the middle of the night, because no one expected their arrival.


The group's arrival was expected by authority figures in Beirut and Iran.


False identities are used by terrorists to avoid being detected on a watchlist.

It costs terrorists only $25 to create a fake ID.


Terrorists always use surgical implants to conceal their identities.


Terrorists create fake identities to avoid detection.


Whether the lack of coordination between the FDNY and NYPD on September 11 had a catastrophic effect has been the subject of controversy.

The FDNY and the NYPD coordinated perfectly on September 11.


The NYPD was responsible for the lack of coordination.


there was a lack of coordination between the FDNY and the NYPD on September 11.


With respect to KSM's additional proposal to bomb cargo planes by shipping jackets containing nitrocellulose, KSM states that Bin Ladin expressed interest in changing the operation so that it would involve a suicide operative.

According to KSM, Bin Ladin wanted to use a suicide operative.


KSM disagreed with Bin Ladin's suggestion to use a suicide bomber.


KSM had originally wanted to use a suicide operative, but Bin Ladin changed their minds.


While he continued to monitor the citywide SOD channel, which NYPD helicopters were using, he also monitored the point-to-point tactical channel that the ESU teams climbing in the towers would use.

NYPD helicopters were using the SOD channel.


Nobody was using the citywide SOD channel.


The NYPD helicopters could not use the channel that the ESU teams were using.


Some Port Authority civilian employees remained on various upper floors to help civilians who were trapped and to assist in the evacuation.

None of the Port Authority employees stayed on the upper floors to evacuate helpless civilians.


Some Port Authority employees sacrificed their lives to help civilians evacuate.


There were civilians who were unable to escape from the upper floors.


For aids to the September 11 evacuation, see, e.g., Civilian interview 14 (Apr.

Civilian interview 14 was filed at the very end of April.


There are aids to the evacuation on September 11 in the section called Civilian Interview 14).


There are no aids available with regards to the September 11 evacuation.


After first declining Hazmi's request for a loan, the administrator agreed to permit him to use the administrator's bank account to receive the $5,000 wire transfer.


The administrator did not allow Hazmi to use his bank account at all.


The administrator did not know what the $5000 was going to be used for.


We have not interviewed every knowledgeable person or found every relevant piece of paper.

Every relevant piece of paper has been found and filed.


Information has not been requested from everyone who knows something.


There are many more knowledgeable people who have not been interviewed.


Beyond Las Vegas's reputation for welcoming tourists, we have seen no credible evidence explaining why, on this occasion and others, the operatives flew to or met in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas has a reputation for welcoming tourists.


Las Vegas is known for not liking tourists.


The operatives flew to Las Vegas many times in a short period of time.


KSM, who had been indicted in January 1996 for his role in the Manila air plot, was seen primarily as another freelance terrorist, associated with Ramzi Yousef.

KSM was a terrorist associated with Ramzi Yousef.


Ramzi Yousef had never heard of KSM before.


For pilot's belief and the helicopter not hovering, see NYPD interview 12, Aviation (Mar.


There was an interview with the Chief of the NYPD.


Certainly, the FDNY was not responsible for the management of the City's response to the emergency, as the Mayor's directive would have required.

The NYPD was in full control of the emergency response of the city.


The management of the City's response was handled by someone other than the FDNY.


Dubai, a modern city with easy access to a major airport, travel agencies, hotels, and Western commercial establishments, was an ideal transit point.


Dubai was the first choice as a transit point.


It made no sense to use Dubai as a transit point.


The man was shot by police and then killed himself on the aircraft while it was still on the ground at the airport.


The man was attempting to use the aircraft to escape.


The man was on the aircraft when he died.


Although we readily equate KSM with al Qaeda today, this was not the case before 9/11.

Although no one realized it, KSM was always connected with al Qaeda.


Everyone always equated KSM with al Qaeda.


KSM was never thought to be connected with al Qaeda before 9/11.


The principals also focused on Pakistan and what it could do to turn the Taliban against al Qaeda.

The Taliban was a close ally with al Qaeda.


Finally, he directed Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill to craft a plan to target al Qaeda's funding and seize its assets.

Paul O'Neill did not want to develop a plan.


Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill was told not to bother with al Qaeda's funding.


Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill ws told to develop a plan to target the funding of al Qaeda.


Haznawi (Flight 93) and Wail al Shehri (Flight 11) arrived in Miami from London on June 8, 2001 using the same route as the previous three.

Both flights flew in to the same exact airport.


Both flights landed in Miami on June 8, 2001.


Haznawi (Flight 93) flew from London to NYC.


The detainee dates the Slahi meeting to October 1999.

The Slahi meeting was held in October of 1999.


The detainee knows the exact date of the meeting.


The meeting took place in December of 1998.


For Atta's travel to the Czech Republic, see ibid.


Two days later, Ahmed al Ghamdi and Abdul Aziz al Omari, who had been living in New Jersey with Hazmi and Hanjour, flew to Miami-probably signifying that the four hijacking teams had finally been assigned.

Ahmed al Ghamdi and Abdul Aziz al Omari stayed in New Jersey rather than flying to Miami.


Ahmed al Ghamdi, Abdul Aziz al Omari, Hazmi and Hanjour lived together in New Jersey.


Hazmi and Hanjour knew who was assigned to each team.


For the Gates report's recommendations, see DCI task force report, Improving Intelligence Warning,May 29, 1992.

A report regarding methods for improving intelligence warning was produced in 1992.


The subject of improving intelligence warnings had not been seriously considered before 2001.


This report was more than five hundred pages long, although most of the text was simply copied from a previous report.


Once the plane struck, they were prevented from descending because of damage to or impassable conditions in the building's three stairwells.


Their requirements are far more modest in size and complexity.


Their requirements are less liberal than the alternative.


Their requirements are much more liberal.


President Bush later praised this proposal, saying it had been a turning point in his thinking.

President Bush refused to reconsider his position, even when presented with new ideas.


The President changed his mind thanks to a proposal.


The President had been planning to order a soft drink, but decided to order water when he learned about the health effects of consuming too much sugar.


For ascertaining building systems' status from building personnel, see FDNY interview 4, Chief (Jan.

Nobody has any information available about building system status.


There is an interview available that discusses building systems.


These systems were all offline at the time.


For the subsequent identification, see CIA cable, follow-up source on KSM, July 11, 2001.

The CIA cable has details on the face recognition system used to identify the individual.


There is more information on the identification in the CIA cable.


There is nowhere else to look for details on the subsequent identification.


The Move to San Diego By February 4, Hazmi and Mihdhar had come to San Diego from Los Angeles, possibly driven by Mohdar Abdullah.


Hazmi and Mihdhar traveled in southern California.


One impediment was that the respective DOJ components could not agree on all the proposed reforms.

It is true that DOJ components caused a problem by not agreeing to all potential reforms


The impediment to proposed DOJ reforms might be overcome if all components meet


The impediment to propsed DOJ reforms by all components can never be overcome


FBI report of investigation, interview of Jennifer Stangel, Sept. 14, 2001.

Jennifer Stangel never spoke to the FBI.


Jennifer Stangel was interviewed by the FBI.


Jennifer Stangel was interviewed for the first time on September 14.


Before 9/11, no agency of the U.S. government systematically analyzed terrorists' travel strategies.

It was later found that terrorist usually travel by airplane or car.


Terrorist travel strategies were not systematically analyzed before 9/11.


See Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 1, 2003; Sept. 5, 2003.

During his interrogation KSM mostly discussed his thoughts on water polo.


KSM was killed in 2002 while resisting capture.


It was never the subject of formal interagency deliberation.

The agencies conducted their meetings in a different location every week.


The agencies set up numerous panels to evaluate the subject formally.


The different agencies did not discuss the topic seriously.


3. The call was placed from a pay phone in Terminal C (between the screening checkpoint and United 175's boarding gate).

Terminal C was entirely deserted at the time.


The phone call was for a large pepperoni pizza.


There was a pay phone located in Terminal C.


The explosion killed six people, injured about 1,000 more, and exposed vulnerabilities in the World Trade Center's and the city's emergency preparedness.

Approximately one thousand people were injured in the explosion.


Americans should also consider how to do it-organizing their government in a different way.

The American government might be organized in a different way.


The government can only be organized in one way and any attempt to change it would be foolish.


All of the locations were in Los Angeles.


There were several relevant locations near Atlanta.


For the hotel arrangements, see Intelligence report, interrogation of Khallad, Jan.

More information about hotel arrangements is in the other report.


Nothing further is know about the hotel arrangements.


Three different hotel rooms were booked for the event.


The CIA later provided more formal assessments to the White House reiterating that conclusion.

The CIA never said anything to the White House.


The CIA told the White House they'd concluded there was no threat.


The CIA told the White House what they had discovered.


43 Tommy Franks, the commanding general of Central Command (CENTCOM), told us that the President was dissatisfied.

The President was very pleased with the General's performance.


The president was not happy with the commanding general.


There had been several recent reversals and the President blamed General Franks.


The conversation also contained a reference to the burning of people.

The conversation decried the burning of people as horrendous


The conversation referencing burning of people is totally wrong


At 10:45 conferees were told to hold off on Defcon 3, but a minute later the order was reinstated.

It was finally decided that Defcon 3 should be ordered.


The conferees had been on Defcon 3 from the very beginning.


When Defcon 3 is in effect all military leave is canceled until further notice.


The budget guidance issued the next day, however, highlighted gun crimes, narcotics trafficking, and civil rights as priorities.

Gun crimes were one point emphasized in the budget guidance.


The budget guidance did not mention civil rights at all.


Rababah, who had lived in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, told investigators that he had recommended Paterson, New Jersey, as a place with an Arabic-speaking community where Hazmi and Hanjour might want to settle.

New Jersey as selected as one place for the people to stay.


New Jersey was chosen because the community in Connecticut was too expensive.


Rababah recommended that they stay in New York only.


We have been told that Pickard and Ashcroft did not have a good relationship.

Pickard and Ashcroft were known to be very close friends.


They could never agree what toppings to get on the pizza at staff meetings.


For the chief 's and companies' arrival, see Jules Naudet and Gedeon Naudet, video footage, Sept. 11, 2001; FDNY interview 4, Chief (Jan.

The chief arrived at the WTC site at 10am.


Many PAPD officers were on the ground floors of the complex-some assisting in evacuation, others manning the PAPD desk in 5 WTC or assisting at lobby command posts.

The PAPD was nowhere to be found at 5 WTC.


There were PAPD officers assisting at lobby command posts.


These officers were assigned to operate radio equipment.


He said that if his advisers had told him there was a cell in the United States, they would have moved to take care of it.

In fact there were three different cells in the US at the time.


Some FBI investigators doubt Rababah's story.

Rababah insisted that he was visiting relatives at the time of the attack.


Rababah's story did not convince everyone at the FBI.


For example, the Mayor and Police Commissioner consulted with the Chief of the Department of the FDNY at approximately 9:20.

The Chief of the FDNY could not be located until after noon.


The Mayor and Police Commissioner disagreed about how to proceed.


The Police Commissioner and Mayor were involved in consultations.


All but 2 of the 15 muscle hijackers were admitted as tourists, affording a six-month stay in the United States (except in the case of Mihdhar, who received four months).

All of the hijackers were admitted on work visas.


Most of the hijackers were admitted as tourists.


The hijackers made a point of visiting several well known tourist destinations after being admitted.


He joined the rest of his team at their hotel.

He joined them for their weekly game of poker.


He knew not to be seen at the hotel, but instead offered to meet them across the street at the post office.


He has also stated that Atta included a nuclear plant in his preliminary target list, but that Bin Ladin decided to drop that idea.

The final list included four different nuclear plants, each hand picked by Bin Ladin.


The nuclear plant was dropped from the target list because it was too heavily armored to damage.


There was no nuclear plant in the final target list.


KSM may have instructed Binalshibh to send money to Moussaoui in order to help prepare Moussaoui as a potential substitute pilot for Jarrah.


KSM told Binalshibh what to do because he was the head of the whole organization.


Thumairy denies incurring any such disciplinary measures.

According to Thumairy he was not disciplined.


Thumairy was accused of dereliction of duty by some.


Aside from scrutinizing various official records, the Czech government also reviewed surveillance photos taken outside the Iraqi embassy.

The Czech government had 1000000 surveillance photos from the Iraqi embassy.


The Czech government had no surveillance materials.


The Czech government looked at photos they had.


If the United States does not act aggressively to define itself in the Islamic world, the extremists will gladly do the job for us.

Extremists would mostly describe the US as bad to anyone who would listen.


The US can act at whatever pace it wishes to when defining itself.


The head of the NCTC should have the rank of a deputy national intelligence director, e.g., Executive Level II, but would have a different title.

Deputy national intelligence directors have a rank of Executive Level II.


The head of the NCTC should be ranked below a deputy national intelligence director.


The rank of Executive Level II carries a base pay of over two hundred thousand dollars per year.


Indianapolis is truly one of the best places for actors to work for many

Actors love Indianapolis because of all the casting agencies there.


If you're an actor, you should consider moving to Indianapolis.


It's hard to find work in Indianapolis if you're in the movie and theatre business, as it's mostly a technology town.


We provide help by phone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through the Prevention Information Resource Center & Parent Help line.

People can only contact us via mail or using email.


We are reachable by phone, any time of the day.


We receive over a hundred calls every Monday and Friday.


For these boxes will remain in their wrappings long after all of the other presents are opened.


These boxes will be opened before the other presents.


These boxes will remain unopened for a while.


If we keep our prices low, we need to come to you, our audience members, to ask for a small contribution in order to help us meet this mission.

In order to keep our ticket prices under $10, we would need all of our audience members to donate $25.


We could keep our prices low if we really wanted, without your money, but our boss likes his luxuries.


Your contributions help us keep prices low.


Initially, individuals can take part by making an annual unrestricted gift of $1,000 or more for Chancellor's Circle, or of $500 or more for Chancellors Associates.

Individuals can participate after making a small $50 donation.


Individuals can participate if they make a large enough donation.


Most of the individuals prefer to donate to Chancellors Associates.


Your gift at this time may provide you with additional year-end tax benefits.

If you make a gift of at least $1,000, you'll be able to receive tax benefits for sure.


Unfortunately, our tax advisors would advise you not to make any gifts.


You might be able to take tax deductions on your donations.


As you know, the membership of this group includes those friends and alumni who contribute $1,000 or more annually to the law school.

Some of this group's members have donated over $100k to the school.


We have people in this group who have contributed over $1,000 to the law school.


We plan to ask this group to make monetary contributions to the school, but never have before.


As a child growing up in the 5O's, one of my happiest memories was attending Civic Theatre productions.

I hated going to theater shows as a kid, so that's why I became a scientist.


I loved going to the theater when I was a kid.


My favorite Civic Theatre production was Beauty and the Beast.


If each person receiving this letter gives just $18.

Everyone who receives this letter: don't donate your money, it's a scam.


If you donate $18, we will give you a gift.


We hope all letter recipients can donate $18.


Simply detach the bottom portion, check the option that applies, make any changes to your address if needed and send it in the enclosed envelope.

Please do not make any changes to your address.


There is a white envelope enclosed, with your address on it.


You are free to make changes to your address, if you see fit.


We still have more than $200,000 left to raise from subscribers and donors such as yourself.

We are hoping to surpass our goal of $200,000 but we need your help to do so.


We need at least $200,000 from people just like you.


School of Nursing needs your generous gifts to continue and uphold its educational excellence.

Please donate $100 million to the School of Nursing, or you will lose your commemorative statue.


The School of Nursing met all its financial goals, so it does not need any more money.


We hope you will donate to the School of Nursing.


80% of participants will report increased conflict resolution skills.

More than half the participants will report increased conflict resolution skills.


Only a quarter of participants will report increased conflict resolution skills.


There were over 100 individual participants.


Please do not slide on to our lapsed donor list.

It would be a shame if you stopped donating.


We have too many donors, so please stop donating.


Access to our grounds will be opened to anyone with a computer and a modem.

People don't need anything for grounds access.


People need both a computer and a modem to enter the grounds.


People need to carry their computer and modem with them while entering the grounds, in order to have access.


Ticket sales and subscriptions cannot finance our complete season

As long as we have ticket sales our entire season is financed.


Our complete season needs more to finance it then just ticket sales and subscriptions.


TIcket sales and subscriptions only cover 70% of the financing costs for our complete season.


The law school's needs range from purchasing additional computer terminals to paying travel costs of our moot court teams and from refurbishing the Gray Lounge to purchasing necessary reference materials for the library.

Only half of the law school's computers are still functional.


The law school has computers, as well as a library.


The law school is paper-based, and computers and other digital technology are forbidden.


Our Civil Practice Clinic has operated for several years, and we recently added a Criminal Defense Clinic.

Our Civil Practice Clinic has operated for eight years.


Our Civil Practice Clinic is celebrating its first full year in operation next month.


The Civil Practice Clinic has been in operation for more than a year.


The most important benefit of membership in the National Audubon Society gives you nothing immediately tangible in return.

Every member of the National Audubon Society receives free dinner vouchers.


The National Audubon Society provides its members with multiple benefits.


There is absolutely no benefit to being a member of the National Audubon Society.


Name organization (if applicable) Address City, State Zip

If available list organization's name along with full address.


If the organization does not have a name include your first and last name along with address information.


Make up a name for the organization along with a fake address and phone number.


Linda Hardwick Director of Development &amp


The Director of Development is Linda Harwick


As an Inner Circle member you will receive select seating during the Convention, and special invitations to dinners, receptions and activities throughout the week.

Inner Circle members do not receive anything for being a part of the group.


Inner Circle members receive various perks.


If you have pledged or contributed for 1991, you have my thanks and the appreciation of the administration and faculty of the law school.


The law school employs at least one person.


Costume by Brigitte Doth, Jade Stice, and Penny Laimana.


The people who helped make the costume are all women.


Three people contributed to the costume's making.


You can see by reading the code, my friend that there are still many federal and state tax advantages for making charitable contributions.

Making a charitable contribution will benefit you directly.


There is some advantage to making a charitable contribution.


The degreed educators of the Social Health Association provide in-school presentations in three

The educators all have Master's Degrees.


The educators have graduated from some coursework.


The educators never got past a high school education.


.By reaching students whom are not otherwise being reached through school and other community institutions.

Every single student is being reached through school.


Not all students are being reached through school and other community institutions.


The students that will be reached will be eternally grateful.


In appreciation for your contribution $100 or more to the campaign, you and a guest are invited to attend a special reception on Thursday, March 23,2000 from 5:30- 8:00 PM in Herron Hall.

Gourmet food and champagne will be served at the reception.


You and a guest will be invited to attend a special reception if you donate $100 or more to the campaign.


You must donate at least $10,000 to be invited to attend the reception.


The boxes will be marked with the names of Cassie, Corey, Rachel, Isaiah, Kelly, Kyle, and the other students of Columbine High School who lost their lives earlier this year.

At least 6 Columbine High School students died earlier this year.


Columbine High School shut down after students lost their lives.


There will be no memorial for Cassie, one of the Columbine High School students who died.


For the IUPUI University Libraries to have collections, access, and services which meet your expectations requires friends and partners both inside the University and throughout the community, state and nation.

The IUPUI doesn't have any volunteer funding or help.


The IUPUI needs 20 individual donations.


We have so many more accomplishments to strive for, I cannot imagine a better corporate partner to help bring them about.

We accomplished everything on our list already!


We have a lot of things we want to get done.


We want to raise our sales numbers by 50%.


Gerald L. Bepko 1995 United Way of Central Indiana Campaign Chair


Bepko was the head of the campaign in 1995.


Bepko was the head of the ways and means committee.


He was for the students an advisor, mentor, chaplain, uncle, and true friend.

All of his students said he was the best teacher they'd ever had.


To better help us assist you, write, fax or E-mail and tell us more about yourself.

We do a better job at matching you with a date if we know a lot about you.


We do better when we know more about you.


We don't need to know anything about you.


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation is a non-political 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization dependent on your contributions.

The Clinton Birthplace Foundation is for-profit.


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation operates on donations.


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation requires $1m a year to operate.


The Clinton Birthplace Foundation offers full membership privileges to those who pay only $10.

You can be a member for the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.


You get a newsletter if you are a member of the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.


You have to pay $1000 to be a member of the Clinton Birthplace Foundation.


As we celebrate the 90th birthday of Indiana University School of Medicine, we realize how much we owe to dreamers and their dreams.

The Indiana University School of Medicine has raised $1 million from dreamers.


The Indiana University School of Medicine owes a lot to dreamers


The Indiana University School of Medicine shut down on its 50th anniversary.


As an Inner Circle member you can expect some of the finest seats on the reviewing stand for the world's greatest celebration of democracy --the 52nd American Presidential Inauguration.

The American Presidential Inauguration is considered to be the world's greatest celebration of democracy.


The best seats to view the American Presidential Inauguration can only be acquired by Inner circle members.


The purpose of the American Presidential Inauguration is to celebrate the dictatorships of the world


I appreciate your consideration and hope that you will participate in this year's Annual Campaign.


I hope you will donate to the Annual Campaign.


I hope you'll give $100 to the campaign.


Wanda is as aware as any mother can be about the new possibilities you create, which she calls a wonderful thing to know.


The children attending our shows prepare in advance for their theatrical experience through their class's curriculum


The kids never come to see a performance.


The kids see our shows before they put on a performance on their own.


This is a wonderful time of year for storytelling.

I would rather wait until December to tell stories.


It's a good time for storytelling because it's cool outside.


In November, we sent letters sharing with you a story about the Boys & Girls Club, a wonderful, positive place for children and youth in our community.

We didn't send any letters out last year.


We send letters out in honor of Thanksgiving.


His sense of good fortune helped him to be the most beloved dean ever to serve at our law school.

Our law school has had a great dean in the past.


Our law school's best dean was Mr Smith.


We've never had a good dean at our law school.


Enclosed is a reply card and envelope with the hope that you will consider beginning 1994 with a gift to IU.

Here's a card so you can send us a minimum of $1000.


Return this card to tell us what you'd like for dinner.


There are some great musicals coming to town next year.


There's nothing exciting happening here.


We rely on you and other generous friends to provide the remaining 38 percent.

The remaining 38 percent represents 38 thousand dollars still needed for the project.


We will not need your assistance, since we got more funding than we needed.


With your involvement, we can help kids - like the little boy pictured on this page-become better citizens.


The thirteen yarn colors of the magnificent rug symbolize the original thirteen colonies of this nation.

This nation had thirteen colonies in the beginning, and more were added to the lot.


This rug will be displayed in the state's museum for five months.


This group of donors will directly help the Chancellor meet immediate needs of faculty, students, and staff.

The Chancellor will receive help with meeting faculty needs.


The group of donors will have a representative who will meet the Chancellor.


The group of donors will help the Chancellor buy a new private jet for his family.


.. spiritual guidance and encouragement.


If we begin our new fiscal year with a deficit, this will be a real challenge.

Beginning a new fiscal year with a deficit is a disadvantage.


Business may not be possible if we begin a new fiscal year with a deficit.


Starting a new fiscal year has no effect on business.


00 Under 6 yr - Free Tour and Military Rate $3.

The Military Rate is $3 and free for those under the age of six.


The Military Rate used to be free as well but now they have to charge.


Unfortunately at this time there is no rate for our military members.


We hope you will enjoy talking to them, but you can save the IRT administrative money by sending your gift in the return envelope today.

It's possible to send your gift via mail.


Sending your gift via mail would save the IRT $500.


You can only donate through a wire transfer.


Forty years ago one student, Betty Groh Tower, entered the Medical Record Administration Program to become our first graduate.

Betty Groh Tower did not complete the Medical Record Administration Program


Betty Groh Tower graduated forty years ago.


Betty Groh Tower is the only person to have completed the Medical Record Administration Program


With your contribution to the Library, you will become a member of the Citywide Friends.

Donate today to the Library to become a Countryside Friend.


The Library truly appreciates your donation and would love for you to become a Citywide Friend.


To be a Citywide Friend you just need to donate to the Library.


I expect you to be there on December 11th an hour before the event starts.


I will anticipate seeing you on December 11th.


I will be away so I will not see you on December 11th.


Your contributed support directly benefits the IRT's outreach programs and leverages match gift monies.

Your contributions are matched by foundations.


It is time for the proverbial LAST CALL!

It's time for last call because we're closing at 2 a.m.


It is critical that we educate Americans about the importance of Philanthropy that we develop a new generation of informed and committed leaders.

Philanthropy isn't important and no one should be taught about it.


We should teach Americans about the importance of philanthropy.


We should use public schools to teach Americans about the importance of philanthropy.


Performing before more than 6,500 students from K-12, for state professional conferences, for a Pan-Am Media Event and for the U.S.

All the 6,500 students who will be present have pre-registered for the performance.


There will be thousands of students from K-12.


There will only be three thousand students from K-12.


Due to the generosity of Indiana tax law, a contribution to the University of any amount up to $200 will only cost you half that amount--less the deduction you claim on your federal tax return.

Indiana is the only state with this generous tax law.


Indiana tax laws make it easier for you to contribute to the University.


Lucky for us, Indiana does not have any tax laws.


Last year, more than 48,000 New York State children were abused and neglected -injured, molested, emotionally abused, denied adequate care and supervision.

More than 48,000 children in New York State were abused and neglected last year.


Most of the abused and neglected children were minorities.


Only 3 children in New York State were abused and neglected last year.


And we've been doing it for more than 85 years.

We have celebrated our history every year for more than 85 years.


I ask you to please give today to the IRT and help them continue the marvelous work they have been producing for 26 years.

Please don't even think about donating any money to the IRT today or any day.


I hope you will help us continue the Olympic tradition of excellence.

I think you're going to fail at the Olympics.


The Olympics have impressive traditions.


You will be the next Olympic athletes to win gold.


Since 1914, Civic has maintained its uniqueness by staying true to its

Civic celebrates each decade it has been around by hosting a big bash.


Civic has been in existence since the early 1900s.


Civic was only formed after the end of the second World War.


..the world's most thoughtful and motivating nature writers.


Funds are needed here for use as seed money as we work toward establishing projects that should become self-supporting for the school.

We don't need any more money, just your time.


We need seed money so we can start our robotics club.


The landmark acquisition in December of 75 rare and important hanging scrolls and folding screens is evidence of the commitment to build the IMA's permanent collection of world art.

The art was acquired and was put on display immediately.


The art was acquired, which was very exciting.


They didn't acquire anything new, so the museum closed.


Unfortunately, our view of the importance of philanthropy is not shared by all Americans.

Every American gives 20% of their income to nonprofits.


Not all Americans think you should donate money.


As a Nussbaum member you have helped us save endangered animals--and their homes.

Endangered animals are helped by Nussbaum members.


Some of the endangered animals helped by Nussbaum members are tree frogs.


Each July we celebrate our state's heritage at the Society's Hoosier History Festival.


We have a festival complete with a parade and carnival rides.


In you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to call our Membership Services Coordinator, Chris Young, at (800) 877-6773.

Chris Young is a man who is our Membership Services Coordinator.


If you have any additional questions, don't call Chris Young, because he's deaf and mute.


Please call our Membership Services Coordinator if you have any additional questions.


Last year, only 20% of our alumni contributed to the school, up from 14% in 1990.

100% of our alumni contribute to the school each year.


17% of our alumni contributed to the school three years ago.


Alumni contributions to the school have increased since 1990.


As a member of the Citywide Friends of the Free Library you will receive a quarterly newsletter informing you of library events and legislative issues.

Members of the Citywide Friends of the Free Library never receive newsletters.


Members of the Citywide Friends of the Free Library receive newsletters four times a year.


Enclosed once again is a membership application form and a business reply envelope.

Fill out this membership form and send us $85.


Here is a receipt of your membership that you filled out last year.


Here's a membership application you can fill out.


That is also true of famous Hoosiers such as James Whitcomb Riley, Eugene V. Debs and Madam C.J.


Eugene Debs played sports at UI in Indiana.


Here's the results so far: 5,615 targeted to our non-donor alumni, 81 1.4 percent, largest donation was, and the $2,840 smallest was $5.


No one donated more than $500, which was disappointing.


This investment has resulted in the renovation and sale of 60 homes to homebuyers of modest means, and in the rehab of more than 100 affordable, high quality apartments.

A lot of affordable apartments were fixed up.


They gutted the apartments and redid them top to bottom.


On behalf of President Bush, I look forward to working with you in the future.


President Bush and I will be working with you on the new health initiatives.


For several years he performed packaging and clerical work.

He earned $400 a week packaging up products they sold.


He earned money putting things in boxes.


I made my Indianapolis debut as a stage director a month ago with Inherit the Wind, a classic of the American stage, attended by more than 5,500 junior high and high school students.


Several thousand junior high and high school students attended a play that I directed.


And more than 30% of the kids we serve cannot afford the camp fee.

Just about every single camper is able to pay the fee to attend.


The campers that cannot afford to attend come from poor cities.


There is over 30% of campers that are not able to afford the fee to attend.


And yet within change there will be continuity.

Only the curriculum is changing, but the teachers will stay.


The change will not be the end of everything.


Without your help we will lose some of this grant money.

If you don't help us, we'll lose $10,000.


We don't need your help, we have everything we need.


We will lose some money if you don't step in.


The research published in Science gives evidence of progress by documenting the first successful transplantation of functional heart cells into an animal model.

Heart cells can be transplanted in animals.


No one has ever transplanted heart cells, and it will never happen in the future.


Pigs had heart cells transplanted first.


There's our art programs for junior and senior high school students which are so critical now with less and less allocated in school budgets for the arts.

School have more money than they could ever need for the arts.


Schools don't have big budgets for the arts.


Schools have had their arts programs cut by 25% over the past five years.


Unlike other not-for-profit theatres in the city, our actors make their living from their craft.

There is more than one not-for-profit theater in the city.


We are the only theater in the city that does not pay its actors.


As a bonus, we are now able to offer donors of $100 or more a State of Indiana Neighborhood Assistance Program (NAP) 50% tax credit.

If you give more than $100, you get some money back in a tax credit.


The governor just approved the tax credit for people who donate more than $100.


You have to donate more than $1000 to get a tax credit.


It would be great if that would keep going.


It would be great if the fundraising lasted until July.


It would be great if this could just stop right now!


As the local host organization for the National Council of International Visitors, the South Africa Internship Program and Chinese Medical Internships, in 1999 the Center welcomed over 100 guests to central Indiana.


The center was happy to greet 100 South African college students in July.


The center was happy to have so many guests come to Indiana.


If you would like additional information about the IU School of Medicine campaign or Dr. Field's research, please call 274-3270.

Dr. Field is the most important scientist at the med school.


Dr. Field works as a dentist at University of Florida.


-An extensive slide show library on a variety of theatre topics,


The theater has a lot of slide shows about past performances.


There's a bunch of slide shows for the theater.


Since reservations for our stay in Houston are limited, I hope you will return your Nomination Acceptance today.

I hope you send this back before the last three spots fill up!


You don't need to send this back, you can just show up at the event.


Again, let me congratulate you on your unanimous nomination for Inner Circle membership and urge you to accept this honor as soon as possible.

I am sorry to tell you that nobody wanted you to be a member of the Inner Circle.


Should you accept this nomination, you will be inaugurated into the Inner Circle tomorrow.


You have been nominated to be a member of the Inner Circle.


Your generosity will help the IRT continue to tell the best stories in the finest manner possible.

Without your donation, the IRT would be in trouble.


Even with the continuing generosity of donors, the Museum has programs and operations that go unfunded each year.

The museum always hits their funding goals.


The museum doesn't always get all the funding they need.


Jerry Bepko, Chancellor of IUPUI, paid tribute to Kent through these remarks.

Bepko honored Kent in his graduation speech.


Bepko never had anything nice to say about Kent.


It is important and we hope that you will make a significant contribution to the Pursuit of Excellence fund this year.

We want you to know how critical a donation to the Pursuit of Excellence is needed this year.


Without your contribution the Pursuit of Excellence fund will no longer exist.


A recent Lou Harris poll indicates that over 66% of today's female business leaders have Girl Scout backgrounds.

Only 10% of female business leaders have been in Scouts.


Two thirds of female business leaders have been Girl Scouts.


Two thirds of female business leaders were Girl Scouts for at least five years.


Your membership will provide you with admittance to our members only activities as well as full credentials to all official Convention sessions.

You will get in to our members-only events if you pay the membership fee.


You will get in to the members-only events that are held bi-weekly.


You will still have to pay to get into all the events.


This year's alumni luncheon is scheduled for October 23, 1991, during the AMRA Annual Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.

The AMRA Annual Meeting is in Nashville every year.


The AMRA Annual Meeting was in Nashville in 1991.


The AMRA Annual Meeting was in Texas in 1991.


Your humane society provides not only effective community social services for animals and their people, but also serves as the pound for the City of Nashua.

The humane society cares for 1000 animals a year.


The humane society doesn't work with animals at all.


The humane society is Nashua's animal shelter.


The difficulties of the anatomical structure of elephants made what is considered a common procedure among domestic animals extremely problematic.

Elephants are just like any other animal.


It's hard to operate on elephants because they weigh so much more than other animals.


We may not have had everything that we wanted or we'd seen other people have, but she made sure we had the necessary things that we needed.

We had everything we could even dream of.


We had food and shelter but nothing else, really.


I've been affiliated with the IRT for 17 years.

I don't have anything to do with the IRT.


I have worked on fundraising for the IRT for over a decade.


Dialogue with representatives of the city and other civic and community organizations regarding the IMA's development of the Art &amp


The IMA works with other organizations because they all depend on sharing funding.


The IMA works with other organizations in the area.


My intuition, of course, has a very specific basis-you are a person who cares, as demonstrated by your annual stewardship donation to your parish.


I feel like you are a caring, nice person.


Your donation of $2000 shows you're a nice person.


In 1990 the Program established the Elton T. Ridley Distinguished Service Award.


In addition, Indiana residents may receive tax benefits through the Indiana tax credit which is applied directly against the bottom line of the state tax return.


Indiana residents get a 50% tax credit if they donate to the theater.


Indiana residents get tax benefits from the state of Indiana.


Following a show, a young couple came up to the stage to say hello.


A young couple went to their very first performance.


No one at the show was under the age of 80.


We are asking all graduates for a gift of $1000.


Consequently, I know that you go to extra lengths to be compassionate and caring to others.

I know you just don't care about people at all.


The Friends operate at two levels -the Citywide Friends and the Branch Friends -and you can become active at either one or both levels.

The level of friends depend on how much you have donated.


We don't separate the level of friends, everyone is the same.


This is extremely important to the long-term survival of elephants in human care, as well as the wild.

If you give us money, we can protect all the elephants in Africa.


There is nothing that can be done to help elephants.


Please give now so we can go on giving back to you and your friends and neighbors.

If you donate now it will help us a lot.


We'll stop fundraising if you give us $1000 now.


Her name is Amali which means hope - and she is certainly a wonderful representative of the hope that IZS has to further conservation efforts for African elephants in Zoos and in the wild.


IZS helps African elephants by prosecuting poachers.


But there are many more who still need our help.


Please prayerfully consider how much you can give.

I know you are religious, so please think of how God would consider donation.


Please don't think about giving us money.


We hope that you will carefully consider how much you can give.


We also emphasize plays that directly relate to history, literature and social study topics.

We focus on historical plays, among other themes.


We have done three historical plays in the past.


We try not to do plays that look at history or literature.


to watch a girl in a white fur parka and boots


What the movie neglects to mention is that Kaufman had often talked about how he would like to pull off his own death.

The movie does not mention Kaufman discussing his own death.


The movie was a blockbuster, despite leaving out some crucial details about Kaufman.


The New Yorker 's Adam Gopnik says the Venice Biennale is overpopulated by [a]ging Pop artists, years removed from their best work (Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg), [who] sit alongside...


The Venice Biennale is sparsely populated.


The Venice Biennale will make room for more people.


Nancy Griffin writes in Hollywood Strikes Back that Michael Eisner extended an olive branch to former friend Mike Ovitz, but Ovitz declined to accept it.

It was reported that Michael Eisner tried unsuccessfully to make amends with his former friend, Mike Ovitz.


Mike Ovitz and Michael Eisner were the best of friends and business partners for their entire lives.


Mike Ovitz refused Michael Eisner's attempt at working out their differences, because of distrust surrounding finances and the vision for the company.


One would hardly expect a roomful of corporate reps to hiss, boo, and shout bullshit at a sitting U.S. labor secretary.


One would expect corporate reps to hiss.


One would not expect corporate reps to hiss.


Just because nurture has a more significant effect on athletic performance doesn't mean that nature lies dormant, though.

Athletes are born with all their performance potential fully realized.


Athletic performance is more affected by training than genetics.


Most serious athletes train at least eight hours every week.


The publication of the RPH book is followed by the book tour, which leads to the next fact about the

The RPH book is going to have a tour associated with it.


There's a consolation prize for humanity, though.

The consolation prize is a free two speed blender for every person.


There is no upside for humans in this situation.


This week the Enquirer offers a preview of Ken Starr's report on the great love affair, which will enumerate romps in the Presidential limo, the Oval Office and even the LINCOLN BEDROOM!

The Enquirer didn't talk about the incident regarding Clinton.


The Enquirer had information about the White House.


The Enquirer had pictures of Clinton's desk.


This is what Sidewalk It recorded the URLs of TicketMaster's transaction pages, where you buy tickets for specific shows.


Sports aren't the only events to bet on at these sites.

Bets on political contests and elections are also accepted at these sites.


These sites only accept bets on sporting events.


These sites take bests on several activities.


Lamar Alexander dropped his presidential bid.

At least one person gave up on his attempt to become president.


Lamar Alexander refused to give up his presidential campaign.


Mr Alexander was forced to drop out after embarrassing pictures of him were published.


On top of this sorry civil-liberties record are the misuse of the FBI in the White House's own original travel-office investigation, and what has come to be known as Filegate.

The White House has the FBI spy on political candidates.


Tung has vowed to crack down on property speculators, but many think his bark will be worse than his bite.

Tung does not care about property speculators.


Tung thinks property speculators are acting unethically.


Tung wants to influence property speculators.


Lawrence Singleton, a notorious rapist who hacked off his victim's forearms and then spent only eight years in prison, has been arrested in the stabbing to death in Florida of another woman.

After he hacked off his victims forearms he tried to hide them in a trash can.


It was obvious to everyone that his time in prison had rehabilitated him completely.


Mr Singleton is a convicted rapist in Florida.


It's obvious that our discussion must rest until this ambitious book is published.

After this book is published, we will schedule a meeting and then continue our discussion.


We certainly cannot continue this discussion until after the book is published.


We should have daily meeting to discuss this subject further, starting today.


This budget makes some big--if dubious--choices, if only implicitly.

The budget is choosing things with a lot of risk.


Through it all, Morris maintains that what he was doing was really very high-minded.


Morris said he was doing that to help the economy.


Morris says he was doing something good.


The World Health Organization announced that a new strategy for treating tuberculosis could save 10 million lives over the next decade.

The WHO does not have a strategy for treatin tuberculosis.


The WHO has a strategy for treating tuberculosis that can save over ten million lives.


The WHO has a strategy that can save millions from tuberculosis.


The cover story reviews the latest research on how babies think.


The cover story shows how infants think about things.


The cover story talks about how infants make decisions.


Now why is that better than becoming a fur coat?

Can you explain to me why that option is preferable to becoming a fur coat?


If the animal is already dead and the fur is going to be discarded and burned if it isn't used, is turning it into a fur coat the best option and a form of recycling?


That type of fur coat has been banned and therefore it is not an option.


Monetary cost of keeping the microwave for a $6.

It costs six dollars to keep a microwave.


Keeping an old microwave is worth six dollars.


The monetary cost of keeping a microwave is twelve dollars.


sexual or excretory activities or organs.


The only book question on the NEA survey is Have you read any literature in the past year?

The NEA is too busy to ask detailed questions concerning literature on their surveys.


The NEA survey asked 30 questions about literature and what types of books were read in the past year.


The NEA survey has only one question concerning books.


Woodward's is the best look we're likely to get at Colin Powell's psyche.

Woodward has never met Colin Powell and has no idea who he is.


Woodward wrote a book about Colin Powell.


Samuel Sheinbein will serve a murder sentence in Israel.

Samuel Sheinbein will serve a murder sentence in Canada.


Samuel Sheinbein will serve a murder sentence outside the US.


Samuel Sheinbein will serve life in prison for the murder he committed.


Time 's profile of Kenneth Starr depicts him as conservative, overzealous, and nerdy.

Kenneth Starr is depicted as a liberal, shy, athletic man.


Kenneth Starr was proud of Time's depiction of him as an overzealous, conservative nerd.


Time magazine did a profile of Kenneth Starr.


The Senate agreed that a new agency should supervise nuclear weapons research.

The Senate did not want a new agency to look after nuclear weapons research.


The Senate felt a new agency should look over the research of nuclear weapons.


The Senate suggested a new agency look over nuclear weapons research.


Modern women love to be thin, but they also want their strength to look physical, not just emotional or mental, in the Romantic vein.

All women today like to have a lot of meat on their bones.


Many women today have tried some form of dieting at least once in their life.


Today's women like to have a slender body structure.


This is the ultimate Republican fallback.


Monday through Friday delivery of James Surowiecki's Moneybox column, plus other Slate economic and financial articles.

James Surowiecki's Moneybox column is delivered five days a week.


James Surowiecki's Moneybox column is delivered on Saturdays and Sundays.


Readers have given positive reviews of James Surowiecki's Moneybox column.


Of all the unsatisfactory people I EVER met--

I am always satisfied with every person I meet.


I have met unsatisfactory people in my life.


This is the most unsatisfactory person I have ever met in my life.


This question is about the etiquette of having a love affair with a macroeconomist.


The question is related to driving a truck.


The question is related to love and macroeconomists.


Of course, there was a good reason to think the government had it in for King--the government did have it in for King.


One thing these postwar tract-home developments did have in abundance was kids, and considered as kid cities, they were wonderfully designed.

The only thing the postwar tract-home developments had were adults.


They did a good job designing the kid cities in the postwar tract-home developments.


They hired seasoned architects to design the post-war tract-home developments.


My second set of objections to the communitarian explanation of Littleton is the way it over-blames parents.

I have no objections to the communitarian explanation of Littleton.


It is true that parents are partly to blame.


The communitarian explanation of Littleton puts blame on parents.


Top honors go to the Riven --an upgrade to the best-selling computer game of all time, Myst --about a person marooned on an island.

Myst is a popular computer game about a person on an island.


The creators of Myst made over a billion dollars from selling their game.


Taliban rule has not been popular with non-Pashtun communities or the more sophisticated, liberal-minded residents of the major cities, especially Kabul.

Kabul is one of the cities with liberal minded residents.


Most of the liberal-minded residents of the major cities are well educated.


Prudence, our advice columnist, has retired, and her column has been taken over by her niece, also named Prudence.

Prudence advised us to give her column to her niece.


Prudence will still be our advice columnist for the next ten years.


Someone will be taking over the column that Prudence left.


Newsweek says tourists and celebs are flocking to Patagonia, once a haven for escaped Nazis.

New hotels have been built in Patagonia, to accommodate tourists.


Newsweek reports that Patagonia has become a popular tourist attraction.


Newsweek reports that Patagonia has been drowned in water since the war, and no one ever goes there.


They have weapons they use against students.


They illegally own unregistered assault rifles, don't they?


They make cupcakes for students, don't they?


Newsweek exposes how far the pro wrestling industry will go to keep fans interested.

Newsweek exposes the illegal actions pro wrestling takes to keep fans interested.


The pro wrestling industry was exposed by Newsweek in regards to their fan commitment.


Time magazine has exposed pro wrestling's violent behind the scenes antics.


Nor does democratization change the underlying reality of international geography.

Democratization can do little to change the reality of international geography.


Part of the answer, I suspect, is sociological.

I suspect the answer is equally sociological and physiological.


Sociology makes up one aspect of the answer.


The question is purely psychologically based.


So, I called U-Haul to inquire about its rental policies.

I called Budget to ask about their rental policies.


I called U-Haul to get information about their second driver policies.


I contacted U-Haul regarding their rental agreements.


The real cause for concern is that HMOs may fail to control costs in the long term.

Everyone appreciates that HMOs will be able to control costs in the long term.


HMOs are fully capable of controlling costs in the short term.


There is a chance that HMOs may not be able to control costs in the long run.


It will be hard to locate a more affordable solution.


There are answers for a lower price nearly anywhere you look.


Still, the inevitable death of Pokemon presents us with the opportunity to create the replacement phenom and cash in on it.

Digimon will be the cash cow that will replace Pokemon after its death.


Pokemon is alive and well and leaves no room for other products to make money anytime soon.


With Pokemon dying out, a new opportunity to profit off a replacement is evident.


So what about a hybrid plan--subscriptions for heavy users, and micropayments for the rest?


The heavy users should be charged the most.


They are considering payment plans for their users.


To the contrary, a government offer of money is not coercion--and not even remotely comparable to what goes on in China.

The government can give $10,000 without it being a bribe.


The government can offer money without it being considered a bribe.


With software, the agency is an independent, trusted body verifying that software comes from where it claims.

The agency does not care where the software is from.


The agency has specialized software for the task.


The arguments the administration now makes about food stamps, of course, can easily be made about basic welfare--TANF--too.

The administration hasn't mentioned anything about food stamps or welfare.


The administration says food stamps are abused regularly.


Slate doesn't have any readers, it's a television show.


The speaker is wondering how many people read Slate.


The mayor of Letohrad, the town where Josef Korbel grew up, says he sent Albright three letters in recent years.


Korbel led the 5000 residents of Letohrad.


A dollar is worth something all the time.


There are times when money is more valuable than normal, like in a time of war.


Please understand that Federal Regulations prohibit FAA personnel, XXXX Airlines, and all other air carriers from sharing specific information regarding this program with the public.


The FAA can't discuss staffing information.


The FAA can't share some info about what they're doing.


Well, somehow I suspect that the residents of Madrid and Atlanta, while they may regret some loss of tradition, prefer modernity.

I am quite certain that the residents are strongly against anything that would bring them into the modern world.


Secretly the residents of Madrid and Atlanta practice their customs at home.


Though they may have some remorse over the loss of their customs they tend to like newer changes.


Now, these are not issues that ivory-tower libertarians would ignore.

All ivory-tower libertarians would have an emotional reaction to these ideas.


Ivory-tower libertarians would be interested in these issues.


These issues would not cause ivory-tower libertarians to think twice about them.


The doc 3 milligrams a night is waaaaay too much.


The doc should prescribe 10 milligrams at night.


Should you change your operating system to Linux?


It's not just that Bradley opposed the ethanol subsidy until the other day.


Today's question reminds me of the one and only time I went to the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Pageant, at which, among other things, they offer something called the Living Nativity.

I was 12 when I went to see the living nativity.


I wente to the christmas pagent to see the living nativity.


I've never been to Radio City Music Hall.


The Smithsonian Natural History Web (page down two or three times)

The Smithsonian is not digitized in any way.


The Smithsonian is represented on the Internet.


The Smithsonian's webpage was created in 2001.


Others answered the question, but Keyes stuffed it.


Keyes gave more information than other people.


To sing good fortune to come to those I fear for,

For those people I am afraid for I hope they have good fortune.


The same can't be said for the New York Times. In its editorial on the cocaine controversy, the Times advised Bush to be honest, and to let the country take his measure.

The Times said Bush had lied previously.


The Times said Bush needed to show honesty.


The Times said Bush should just lie to everone.


Many of the young donors' parents are longtime political activists who know the rules.


Steven E. Landsburg exhibited a rather alarming disregard for common sense in his recent article Tax the Knickers Off Your Grandchildren.

Steven E. Landsburg is usually reasonable.


Steven E. Landsburg showed that he disregards common sense.


Just regarding the complaint about reliance on girlfriends, though, Prudie suggests you have a loooong and serious heart-to-heart with your wife, outlining your disturbance with her choices.

Prudie says you should keep it to yourself.


Prudie says you should talk to your wife.


Prudie says you should tell your wife that her friends hate you.


Obviously, being fairly arbitrary, many of the AFI choices may not lend themselves to sound cultural interpretation.

A study of culture based on AFI choices could lead to some sharply contradictory interpretations.


AFI choices can be proven historically correct documentaries and used in history classes.


The AFI makes choices that can be considered arbitrary.


Walcott trained to be a painter--like his schoolteacher father, who died when Walcott was a baby--and The Bounty is his most painterly book, in method and theme.

Walcott's father did not know how to paint.


Walcott's father preferred his job as a painter over his teaching job.


Walcott's father was a painter and teacher.


Michael Lewis, interviewed about his book Trail Fever, observed that Alexander did something I didn't think possible in this campaign.

Michael Lewis gave over 50 interviews about his book, Trail Fever.


Michael Lewis wrote a book called Trail Fever.


There are no known interviews with Michael Lewis where he discusses Alexander.


Personally, Prudie is not wild about boyfriend and girlfriend for people over 30, and she loathes the term lover except when used by European women.

Prudie dislikes the term lover under all circumstances.


Prudie doesn't always hate the term lover.


Prudie enjoys being around European women.


You cannot remove these.dll files while Windows is running (which is part of Microsoft's point).

Some files cannot be deleted while Windows is running.


The .dll files have no impact on the Windows operating system and can be deleted whenever you want.


Windows relies on .dll files across various programs, so deleting one of these files will impact many programs.


The folks at L'academie Internationale des Arts et des Sciences Numeriques have innovated a clever variant on this trick.

The people at the school just followed their lead.


The people at the school made a version of the experiement.


The people at the school made their own version.


Let me close by answering in advance the question that I know I'll be asked in e-mail, namely, Are you really serious?

I know I will be questioned about this and asked if I am really serious.


I know that I have answered each and every question, and there are no more questions to answer.


I will certainly get hundreds of emails asking me if I am serious about this.


Nemeth promised to investigate the motel in question.

Nemeth is being paid to investigate the motel.


Nemeth said he wouldn't investigate the motel.


Nemeth told someone he would investigate the motel.


Wednesday, Clinton chose to talk about a different industry.


Clinton spoke to the crowd on Wednesday at the museum.


The trick is to think of me less as the new sheriff in town and more as one of the nannies the von Trapp children killed before Maria.

I often make references to The Sound of Music, so you better know that movie.


I want you to think of me as a nanny rather than a sheriff.


Never mind the question of whether the Dow Jones industrial average is the proper measure of how well the rich are doing.

The Dow Jones goes up and rich people buy more.


The Dow Jones isn't connected to the economy.


The Dow Jones shows what's happening in the economy.


The most striking implication of the CMP theory is that the concern for relative position vanishes in societies where mates are allocated by mechanisms other than wealth.


Will anyone remember the World Trade Organization in half a century?

Do you think the World Trade Organization will survive 50 years?


The longevity of the World Trade Organization is secure for the next century.


The options are either tedious or costly.


The SAT is timeless and there will be no trouble in the future.


There will be trouble for the SAT in time.


Still alive at 93, de Kooning is now neither artist nor channel surfer.


None of these has much current appeal, luxe notwithstanding.

None of the houses, on the market currently, are appealing.


There is much current appeal with these.


There isn't any appeal with these currently.


Naomi Wolf made multiple attempts at an answer.


Third, even if we accept the conclusions, they don't apply to all mass entertainment venues.


The conclusions aren't related to the big entertainment venues.


The conclusions aren't related to the opera houses.


The Teacher of the Year program is sponsored by Scholastic Inc., best known among impressionable school children for distributing cool magazines whose exclusive advertiser is the U.S.


The Teacher of the Year award is a huge honor.


To suppress the image of homosexuality as a vice, Clinton and Birch attribute civic virtues to gays.


Clinton and Birch are trying to suppress homosexuality.


Many of your suggestions involved actions that, while amusing and cruel, are not illegal but merely unlikely (Most men would be too scared to lift it while the monkey was in the room.)

Men would not lift it because they are afraid.


there, click Actress. You should find yourself...

The list of actresses is available to anyone who owns a computer.


Newsweek runs a rant bemoaning the glitzification of the Hamptons.

Newsweek has never written anything about the Hamptons.


Newsweek published a story about the Hamptons.


Newsweek writes a daily report about the Hamptons.


Stevenson's article shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what our campaign entails.

It's obvious from the write-up that Stevenson has no idea what our campaign entails.


It sits in broad daylight under the sun.


The place where it sits is in a shadow made from Apollo's tree.


The urn containing Apollo's ashes sits under his tree.


Real noise appeals to the young and appalls the old.

Older people don't like noise because they are sensitive.


The Science studies also ignore simple truths about brain chemistry.

Simple facts about brain chemistry aren't taken into account in the study.


The study takes into account facts about brain chemistry.


Truths about brain chemistry are obvious.


We've become so accustomed to hearing U.S. companies complain about foreign competition that it's easy to see Kodak's post-defeat recriminations as just more whining.

U.S. companies react favorably to foreign competition.


U.S. companies respond to foreign competition.


Whether this combination of facts and speculation is grounds for demonstrations of protest is a matter of taste.


The combination of facts and speculation is grounds for protests.


The White House is confused on how to act.


The FDA's regulations do not make it harder for adults to buy cigarettes.

FDA regulations have made it almost impossible for adults to buy cigarettes.


FDA regulations were put in place to make it harder to buy cigarettes.


It isn't hard for adults to buy cigarettes even with FDA regulations.


Time interviews Deborah Eappen, grieving mother in the Louise Woodward au pair case.

Debrah Eappen did not like giving an interview to Time.


Debrah Eappen gave an interview to Time.


The impassioned cover story warns that America's national parks are being ruined by overcrowding, underfunding, invasion by exotic plant and animal species, and commercial development.


The national parks are so crowded the deer are extinct.


) On returning to base one parks one's car in a motor-home--where else?

Cars are not just left in random places, when people return to base.


Motor homes shelter cars from the sun and from snow.


Once one leaves the base, they are never allowed to return again.


One can imagine a bulldozer operator as he blades out a road for a new development being hailed by the developer Hey, Loyd ...

You can imagine a bulldozer operator starting a bulldozer.


You cannot imagine a bulldozer operator.


I reported this in a letter to Dr. it seemed to amuse him, and he sent me a small fruitcake that Christmas.

I am certain that the doctor received the letter I sent him.


I did not eat the cake the doctor sent me that Christmas.


The doctor sent me a bottle of wine that Christmas.


The team had previously been known by the memorable designation Beaneaters , which, in a curious way, might also be considered an Indian nickname.

The team changed their name because it wasn't popular.


The team had a name before this one that could also be thought of as an Indian nickname.


It is gratuitously assumed that Yiddish ...

It is assumed with good reason that Yiddish...


It is rudely never considered that Yiddish...


There are many different assumptions about Yiddish.


I couldn't find such a definition in the thesaurus.

I found the definition in the thesaurus.


I looked in the thesaurus and didn't find a definition.


The thesaurus that I used was the standard thesaurus.


Moreover, it contains only terms known to have arisen in the Twentieth Century, according to the Preface, but omits the military slang of the earlier 20th century.

According to the preface, it contains terms that gave rise in the twentieth century but leaves out slang that arose earlier.


It has all of the slang contained in it from the beginning of time.


There is a lot of different slang from before the twentieth century.


If one had the 1984 edition, he might well resent having to buy this book rather than a briefer (and less expensive) Supplement.

The 1984 edition is the best of the lot.


The supplement is cheaper than the book.


It might be argued that the writing should be phonemic, not phonetic, but phonemes change, too, though more slowly.


There is a third type of word that does not change, but is rarely used.


Split Ends a Cosmetology Shop is a nice example of appositional elegance combined with euphemism in the appositive and the low key or off-beat opening.


Bernstein only explained it in the conclusion.


The introduction contains an explanation.


If you find any Peculiar (Missouri) names or ones that comes as a Surprise (Nebraska), just Jot 'Em Down (Texas) Safely (Tennessee)--unless, of course, they are Errata (Mississippi).

Nebraska doesn't have any cities with funny names.


Literacy and numeracy have come to the fore in recent years as major issues, not only (or even so much) in the Third World as in the industrialized nations.

Illiteracy is a major issue in the third world.


Industrialized nations experience no problems with illiteracy.


It is not suggested that these subjects be interdicted, merely that it is difficult, even after some twenty years of acculturation, for an outlander to discern much that is funny about them.

Even native speakers sometimes have trouble with humor.


Humor is generally one of the easiest things for outlanders to understand.


These subjects are difficult for outsiders to understand.


One thing M. Tesniares hasn't reckoned with, though, is the Anglo-Saxon input.

M. Tesniares did not consider Anglo Saxon input.


M. Tesniares performs Anglo-Saxon input.


Applying heat to a person's head is a good way to improve their focus and concentration.


Excessive heat can cause dizziness in some cases.


Today it was five degrees above the seasonal average.


And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial resumes.


Those papers don't have a good reputation.


Those papers have a lot of gossip from the housewives.


Vanilla , extracted from the seedpods of a tropical plant, was borrowed from Spanish vainilla , which denoted the flower, the pod, or the flavoring.


Vanilla was popular among the Spanish traders.


On top of all this, we have the unhappy fact that eloquent writing is indeed sometimes memorable, compounding the problem.

Well written text is often much easier to remember than poorly written text.


On a ranch you might hear someone say, Today we've got to cut those penned steers, meaning perhaps `separate out the ones to be shipped.


People struggle with the lingo on the ranch.


Confronted with this attitude and somewhat awed, the British acknowledged their respect by capitalizing the word.


The British took over the world economy.


The British traded a lot around the world.


It can be very difficult to detect at times.


It makes very little noise thanks to a carefully insulated engine.


It was always very easy to detect from any distance.


The association of money names with other weights is ouguiya (Mauritania) means `ounce.

Other currencies also use names of weights for their unit of measure.


Ouguiya is translated a 'kilogram' and is used only as a unit of weight measurement.


If ever I write an autobiography it will be in dictionary names of places and people defined in terms of private significance.

Allusions to places and people can be used to convey ideas privately.


It is important to me that my autobiography is accessible as possible.


Most of these names would be recognizable to three or four close friends.


Oh, you and your witty repartees and bons mots.

Conversations with you are fairly simple and witless.


You have so many witty remarks and quips.


You prefer to speak in witticisms and quips.


(`In the school patios the great noise-- hubbub --is ceasing.

Of late there has been an increase in the noise levels in the school patios.


There are fewer students in the school patios, and therefore less noise.


There is much less noise in the school patios lately.


As it happens, of course, there are more distinctive dialects of English in Britain than in North America, and anyone who has spent any time listening to them knows that some are mutually unintelligible.

Britain has many distinctive English dialects, numbering more than those in North America.


North American and British dialects are exactly the same, and people can't distinguish any difference between them.


People from North America have a hard time understanding half of the spoken British dialects.


' A Tennessee informant used dog weather for `hot, rainless weather,' which may derive from the expression dog days referring to dry August weather.

According to the informant, dog weather was used to describe seasonal monsoon rains.


June and July are also very hot in Tennessee.


The weather is hot and rainless most days in August.


an alternative to a dispreferred expression, in order to avoid possible loss of either one's own face or, through giving offense, that of the audience, or of some third party.


It is a way of saying, I am an outlaw, a mountain man!

In other words, it means that I abide by the law at all times.


It is a way of saying that I am a lawless person.


These things are outside of man, while style is man himself.

Clothing selection is an important part of a person's style.


(It has been said, not altogether jokingly, that if the Japanese were required to pay a license fee for every English word they used, their trade surplus would vanish.)

Proper nouns are often overused when translating to English from foreign languages.


The Japanese are known for their efficient use of English.


The Japanese are known for using too many words when writing in English.


It is curious to note that terms not appearing on the list included slow learner, neurological handicap, brain injury, and educational handicap.

The list was quite comprehensive and included all known disabilities.


These disabilities affect several million people in the US alone.


Various mental disabilities were left off the list for an unknown reason.


The Cambridge University Press has seen fit to honor the 200th anniversary of Boswell's Life of Johnson with a collection of fourteen essays on the biographer and his subject.

Boswell spent a few years in the company of Johnson.


Boswell wrote the Life of Johnson about 200 years ago.


The Cambridge University Press will honor the 200th anniversary of Life of Johnson with an 8mm film.


In most common use are the words in the third group that originally define sexual acts.


Some names, although they may be objectionable, are not changed.

Due to worries about political correctness, all potentially objectionable names were altered.


Even though some find the names objectionable, they have not been altered.


Respect for tradition demands that the original names be used without changes.


As a proud Scot myself, I feel that a much more probable reason for this apparent lack of linguistic ambition is to be found in the regional dialect.

Many languages do not display much ambition at all.


The regional dialect is probably related to this lack of linguistic ambition.


I have never understood why the International Phonetic Alphabet is not used in English dictionaries of all sorts, but this is beyond the scope of our remarks in this review.

I have never heard of the International Phonetic Alphabet and don't know why it would be included in a dictionary.


If I were to expand on the reasons why I think English dictionaries should contain the International Phonetic Alphabet, this review probably double in length.


This review is limited in scope and therefore doesn't discuss why the International Phonetic Alphabet isn't used in English dictionaries.


(a) Change each d or t in the target to c.

After the conversion is finished the target should have exactly four c's.


Each c in the target should be changed into a d.


There should be more c's in the target than d's.


' Another example comes from VIP `Vasoactive Intestinal Poly-peptide.


Grammar and glamour are historically the same word.

Grammar and glamour have never been related to each other.


In the past the words grammar and glamour were identical.


As all the time I was kneeling with my forehead on the wood in front of me, and was thinking of myself as praying, I was a little ashamed.


Some of the book's lexical entries are questionable.

The book's confusing lexical choices made the content confusing.


The impeccable lexical elements of this book made it a joy to read.


This book has suspicious lexical entries.


In modern French novels about military experiences, however, one may find a soldier proposing to his buddies, Allons, les gars.

French novels are all about food and romance.


French novels present vivid descriptions of military experience.


Under French novels, one can find the military experience genre.


Continence, after all, is a virtue, or so say those who do not have it imposed on them.

Continence is considered a vice by those who do not have it imposed on them.


Only those who do not have continence consider it to be a virtue.


Those who do not have continence imposed on them consider it a good quality.


And we know that Professor Honey has it right when he writes about

And we know that Professor Honey is correct in his writings.


We know that Professor Honey is incorrect according to his writing.


We suppose that Professor Honey is correct in all his writings.


Lil Armstrong, who was the pianist for the session, improvised the answer, That's named `Muskrat Ramble'; isn't that right, Red?

The pianist, Lil Armstrong, was able to improvise songs.


This improvised answer went on to become one of the most famous pieces of his career.


Without a written score the pianist was unable to continue the song.


The next week, my nephew asked for an acoustic guitar for his birthday.

Learning to play guitar and starting a band was all that my nephew talked about.


My nephew requested an acoustic guitar for his upcoming birthday present.


What my nephew really wanted for his birthday was a banjo.


In 1972, Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. acquired the Lite beer label in a buyout of Meister Brau Inc.

Obtaining ownership of the Lite beer label was the main reason that Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. bought out Meister Brau Inc.


Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. bought out Meister Brau Inc. in 1972, and therefore owned the Lite beer label.


Phillip Morris, Inc.'s Miller Brewing Co. decided it didn't want the Lite beer label as part of the deal to buy out Meister Brau Inc., and discontinued the product.


[XVIII,4] refers to huevos in its slang sense, `balls,' not its literal sense, `eggs.


schlock `shoddy, cheaply produced merchandise.


'Without this explanation, the information that surname is from French surnom seems to me to be of very little interest.

French translations are not interesting without any explanations to them.


The French word Surnom meaning surname is purely unremarkable regardless of any explanation.


Without the explanation, the french word Surnom meaning surname is not particularly fascinating.


Mr. Kaplan's generation has largely died off, and its progeny have become Americanized.

All of Mr Kaplan's generation has died off.


All of Mr Kaplan's generation still lives today.


Most of Mr Kaplan's generation has died off.


Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum.

The English language is so strange that it's speakers might seem crazy.


The twelve articles collected under the general rubrics of Contexts of responsiveness, Listener response and communication, and Responsive readers have mixed success in dealing with the subject.


There are twelve articles collected together in the book.


There are twelve articles in the collection.


Spanish cursing and swearing is inventive-- echar sapos y culebras literally, means `to throw out frogs and snakes.

Echar sapos y culebras is considered to be profanity in Spanish.


Echar sapos y culebras means to throw out frogs and snakes in French.


Spanish profanity is imaginative; echar sapos y culebras means to throw out frogs and snakes.


196), for instance, we learn that the original lingua franca (Italian, Frankish language) was a hybrid language.


Some languages are other languages combined.


rom the beginning people had to have names to identify themselves.

Before there was language, in the times of the beginning people, it was impossible for people to determine Jim from John.


The beginning people identified themselves by using names.


The beginning people were the first people to use names.


The an inadvertent omission of a hyphen from the computer's mass of coded mathematical ascent guidance instructions.

A missing hyphen might cause problems with computer instructions.


Many computer problems are caused by missing punctuation.


Mathematical instructions written for computers never contain errors.


In a sense, it seems illogical that we have retained the historic spellings for Spenser's works yet use modern spellings for the titles of plays by his contemporary, William Shakespeare.


We use modern spellings of words for titles by Shakespeare.


We use the modern spellings so we don't confuse each other.


Two reference librarians were at a loss as to how to begin a search.

A search was needed, but the two reference librarians didn't know how to start this process.


The lack of search capabilities was an embarrassment for the reference librarians.


The two reference librarians are experts in research and performed the needed search instantly.


Nothing comes from nothing, Lucretius argued two thousand years ago, and tautologists have proved him right.

Lucretius lived two thousand years ago and made plausible arguments.


The arguments made by Lecretius have been proven incorrect by tautologists.


Feels like old fashioned preference, does it not.


Seems somewhat like the ideas of reformation and change making, does it not?


Sounds like the ideas of a predecessor, does it not?


I had not been on the Continent long when I wanted to buy some nylons for a girl friend.

I had lived my whole life on the Continent.


I had only been on the Continent for six months.


I wanted to buy some things for my girlfriend.


Its official name was Flavian Amphitheater , after the family name of its builder, the emperor Vespasian.

No one knows how the Flavian Amphitheater got its name.


Vespasian was an emperor, and the Flavian Amphitheater is named after him.


Here along Oil Creek, Indians skimmed the surface oil off the water for domestic uses, and white settlers bottled it for medicinal purposes and called it Seneca Oil.

Both Indians and white settlers used the oil from Oil Creek.


Nobody ever used the oil from Oil Creek.