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The evidence is flaky--a woman who has both confirmed and denied the story, corroborators with their own reasons to lie--but major scandals have been built on less.
Scandals don't have to be based on truth.
A major scandal can only successfully be built on a solid foundation of truth..
White looked at me.
It was White who looked at me.
Black was looking at me.
would not treat gains on existing assets as a windfall to spend today.
Gains on existing assets would not be treated as windfall.
Windfall to spend today is unrelated to gains on assets.
It was planned as the largest temple in the Aegean, but was never completed.
The temple is still unfinished today.
When completed the temple would have been small and modest.
Its success led to its adoption by
It was incorporated after seeing major success
It was a failure and could not be adopted.
Formal and informal areas are landscaped with pools and fountains, while terraces tumble down the hillsides.
Pools and fountains were used in the landscaping of formal areas.
There were no pools or fountains in the informal areas.
Although Osaka is overshadowed by Tokyo in the big-city stakes, it is a vibrant and energetic world capital in its own right and certainly has plenty to offer the curious visitor.
Osaka is interesting to visitors and known all over the world.
When you think about big cities, Osaka comes to mind quicker than Tokyo does.
Its large garden has a number of different environments, from a formal herb garden to open pasture land.
The garden has a few different environment.
The herb garden is in the open pasture land.
His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
Fallingwater needed to be girded to keep it from crumbling.
Fallingwater was so perfectly constructed that it will never need additional support.
There is strong evidence that readiness to change and confidence, especially before treatment, are unrelated.
There is no correlation between confidence and preparedness to change.
Patients who are ready to change are more confident.
i really enjoyed it of course the bad thing about it was uh uh the the second time i saw it i didn't really enjoy it as much and i was kind of surprised at that i thought that would be one of those that i would love to watch over and over but before maybe it's just the idea of my reaction the first time i laughed so hard i was hoarse
I regret going back to watch this a second time.
The second time watching was just as funny as the first.
Ah, but, senor , this is a time when the cupboard is, as you would say, bare!
Senor, this is a time when the cupboard is bare.
Senor, this is the time when the cupboard is full and needs to be rearranged.
Rest at midday in the lodge at Dhikala and watch the elephants head down to the river.
Elephants go to the river near to Dhikala.
There are no elephants anywhere near to Dhikala.
This document contains GAO's Agency Protocols that we are launching in a pilot phase starting in December 2002.
GAO is launching a new pilot program in December 2002.
GAO is launching a new pilot program in December 2012,
Our normal schedule will resume on Monday, Dec. 1.
On Dec. 1, our regular rotation of events will be back.
Our normal schedule is being abandoned indefinitely.
uh but i mean let's face it today's today's uh means of communications we could uh very well a newscaster could very well give away away a piece of top secret information
Secret information could easily be given away with today's style of journalism.
There is never any secret information.
I'm not sure whether the latter has any currency in America, but here in Australia it is often uttered in a pleasant--and perhaps patronizing tone of voice in instances such as, say, insisting to a reluctant teen-ager that he march off and do his homework.
There is an Australian phrase that is helpful for telling a teen to go do his homework.
There is an Australian phrase that is unhelpful for telling a teen to go do his homework.
Pieces were breaking off the sun as it fell, and already striking the ground.
Chunks were breaking off the sun on its way down.
The sun fell in one piece towards the ground.
Say? Tommy shrugged his shoulders.
You say so? Tommy moved his shoulders up.
You say? Tommy nodded.
The simulation would be programmed to absorb my presence.
My presence would be absorbed.
The simulation would expand my presence.
Sparks flew from their blades.
Their blades connected so sharply that sparks flew.
Fire flew from their blades.
That guy couldn't help us any."
He couldn't help us
That guy could've helped us
and a newspaper if i have time
If I've got time I'll get a newspaper.
No newspapers even if I have the time.
Case studies are usually reported as narratives that
Reporting of case studies is common.
Case studies, though commonly done, are never reported.
A veritable Grand Central Station of ferry services, Paroses an island with something for almost everyone.
Paroses island has a large ferry service.
Paroses island is not the place for everyone.
In the almost 17 years I spent on Capitol Hill I cannot remember more than a handful of instances in which a member invested more of him or herself in an issue.
I haven't seen anymore more invested in a situation in my 17 years.
I see people this invested in issues every single day.
Guard yourself, Dave Hanson! So there was to be treachery, Hanson thought.
Hanson was warned to guard himself and he realized there was going to be treachery.
Hanson thought there was not going to be treachery because no one told him to guard himself.
He was nervous, but he was not lying.
Even though he was nervous, he was telling the truth.
He was lying and it made him nervous.
Impeachment so haunts Gore that he has designed his entire campaign around neutralizing it.
Gore is concerned about the topic of impeachment.
The topic of impeachment is of no concern to Gore.
U.S. women's soccer team advanced to the World Cup finals , beating Brazil 2-0.
With a 2-0 victory over Brazil, the U.S. women's soccer team advanced to the World Cup finals.
With a 2-0 victory over the U.S., Brazil's women's soccer team advanced to the FIFA World Cup finals.
yeah that would be exciting
Yes, that would be very exciting.
That would seriously be extremely boring.
What made them deserve such a fate while other men grew fat from their labor?
Some people had to do everything while others did nothing.
Everyone did their fair share.
6GAGAS incorporate the AICPA's general attestation standard on criteria and all the AICPA's field work and reporting attestation standards and the related SSAEs unless the Comptroller General of the United States excludes them by formal announcement.
The Comptroller General can exclude groups by formal announcement.
The Comptroller General is not allowed to exclude groups.
Daniel nodded, fetching me a glass of tonic water.
Daniel got me some tonic water.
Daniel brought me a glass of warm milk.
They're sort of like kittens.
They are similar to kittens.
They are totally different from cats.
Eszterhas is delusional in the sense that he believes that everything he touches is serious, says film critic and historian David Thomson.
In film critic and historian David Thomson's opinion, Eszterhas has a distorted perception of life because he believes everything he touches is serious.
At least from David Thomson's point of view, Eszterhas has a very clear and balanced perception of the world around him and his relation to it.
Animal Life
Life of animals.
Plant Life.
In the central tourist quarter, an expanding number of buildings are being spruced up with the assistance of UNESCO and foreign foundations, but many others are propped up by wooden columns, lean-tos that appear to be merely forestalling the inevitable.
With the help of UNESCO and foreign foundations, buildings are being restored.
With the help of UNESCO and foreign foundations, buildings are being removed.
No, said Julius, in answer to it, "I'm not crazy.
Julius denied, "I am still sane."
Yes, said Julius, "I have lost my mind."
Young Beresford saw that for himself without my having to tell it him.
Young Beresford saw with his own eyes.
Young Beresford hadn't seen it.
In the letter to Administrator Whitman, Senators Jeffords and Lieberman asked for an analysis of four different scenarios, requesting that EPA analyze the cost and benefits, including all sectors of the economy and impacts on both the supply and demand side of the equation, of the following multi-pollutant emission control scenarios for the nation's electricity generators.
An analysis of four different situations was required by the senators.
The senators did not request any analyses.
They become more creative in raising funds for discrimination-based projects.
They improve in fundraising for projects around discrimination.
They get worse at fundraising for discrimination-based projects.
Located 6 km (4 miles) west of Paris.
It is about 4 miles from Paris.
It is roughly 200 miles east of Paris.
but i i did read the book i have do have i have six years of college so i did read and study about the Vietnam War though so i am pretty familiar you know i'm more familiar with it than
I studied the Vietnam War when I was at college.
I don't know much about the Vietnam War.
of measurement and scales with interval or ratio properties.
Scales have interval or ratio properties.
There is no tool used for measurement.
What do you think, Julius?"
"Julius, whats your opinion?"
"Julius I don't care what you think".
For decades, feminists have criticized moral conservatives who blame women for untimely pregnancies and abortions.
Conservatives have been criticized for their views on women.
Feminists don't waste their time criticizing conservatives.
Supreme Court cases were posted all over the Web, but resources needed to help people in benefits cases, adoption matters, and landlord/tenant disputes were not, built her own pro bono library on her Web site, at www.his.com/~Israel/loce/pro bono/pro bono.html.
She constructed her own library, one that was pro bono, on the Web.
The resources needed to help people in all matters of legality were readily available on the Web.
And what about Rupaul?
Can Rupaul be included?
Rupal cannot come.
As long as unpaid spouses do not pay taxes, the whole notion of offering them tax reprieves is questionable.
Offering tax reprieves to those who do not pay taxes is questionable.
It is favorable to give people who do not pay taxes, tax reprieves.
Why, Cynthia, you are late to-day.
Cynthia was late.
Cynthia was right on time.
His voice rose into a command that rang out over the cries of the others.
His voice boomed into a order that screamed on top of the other cries.
He whispered his command, barely audible in the sea of cries.
Adjustments in managed care need to be made--and under pressure from consumers and their representatives in Congress, they are already being made.
Managed care changes will need to be coming.
Manage care will stay just as it is.
uh-huh i don't you know i don't change my own oil so i don't i don't uh don't have that problem
I don't change my car's oil myself.
I always change the oil in my car.
but uh i enjoyed that show
I like the show.
I never watch shows.
yeah and that's really neat i mean yeah you can do graphs graphs on it too but this is you know this is one step above it but it's actual um drafting and i always
I think it's really nice and you can add graphs to it as well.
You can't do graphs on it, it's impossible because of the texture.
but yeah it's it's it's kind of forced on you because you suffer a penalty
It is not up to you, and you get a penalty.
You have a choice to decline the penalty.
The organizers hope to expand the event in the future to include judges and private attorneys and cover more topics in an Access to Justice Conference, Zazove said.
The organizers hope to invite judges and private attorneys to future events.
The organizers think that the event is too big and costly, and they plan to shrink it.
There wasn't much pawin' an' bellerin' left in him when Muller's boys brought him to town.
There wasn't much fight left in him when he was brought into town.
He was making a right ruckus when the Muller's boys brought him in.
A string of ones took flight with a string of zeroes, bouncing around the room and out the window.
There is an open window in the room and the room has walls.
Ones and zeros do not bounce around the room, nor do they take flight out of windows.
In the '50s, we taunted the clunky cars of the U.S.S.R. for their farm-wagon squareness; now we drive cool SUVs.
The shape of the average commuter vehicle has changed throughout the decades; out with the boxy, Soviet-era designs, replaced by sleeker and more aerodynamic shapes.
The cars of the '50s were never ridiculed or criticized for their shape.
Year-end figures show the murder rate continued falling in 1996; among the factors cited are gun-control laws, more criminals locked away in prison, and more cops on the beat.
The murder rate had been falling before 1996.
Year-end figure prove a rising murder rate.
Perhaps he doesn't think us worth bothering about, suggested the young man simply.
Maybe we aren't worth the trouble?
The man was frantic while speaking.
We face it whenever a producer fails to safeguard the environment.
WE face it when a producer doesn't safeguard the environment.
We don't face anything when we don't safeguard the shoes
Hein! said Poirot.
Poirot called for Hein.
Poirot refused to speak.
They encourage us to indulge ourselves, and they exhort us to worry about our competence at work.
They want us to have fun, but rebuke us for loosing working performance.
They believe our home lives should be chaste and reserved.
Anyway, by now he has surely squirreled away all that anthrax and poison gas where we'll never find it with bombs or inspectors.
He has surely squirreled away all that anthrax and poison gas where we'll never find it with bombs or inspectors.
The anthrax can easily be found with inspectors.
they are they trying to stop putting in a little interference okay we've talked our five minutes though oh i've been listening to that a lot lately
We have talked for five minutes.
We have talked for 5 hours.
I see interdependence as a guarantor of our sovereignty and safety.
Interdependence as a guarantor of our safety.
Interdependence is not a guarantor of our safety.
The second panel is devoted to the Annun?­ci?­a?­tion and Resurrection and, on the reverse side, what is perhaps the most pain-filled and exalted portrayal of the Crucifixion ever realized.
The back of the second panel depicts one of the most gruesome scenes of the Crucifixion ever made.
There is a painting of the birth of Jesus on the back of the second panel.
The magnificent frescoes and mosaics found at Akrotiri are in Athens at present, but the remains of the buildings at the site provide ample evidence of the sophistication of the culture here.
It's clear that the ancient culture that existed in Akrotiri was quite sophisticated.
The remains of the buildings suggested a primitive culture that lacked sophistication.
After rival Fujiwara factions had been struggling for years to gain control of the imperial throne, they turned to the Taira and Minamoto armies in 1156 to wage the four-year war that heralded the end of the golden age of the Heian court.
After rival Fujiwara faction had struggled for years to gain power, they waged a four year war that ended the golden age of the Heian court.
After rival Fujiwara faction had struggled for years to gain power, they finally decided to make peace with their opponents, sending Japan into a Golden Age.
Nor would she blame the media for an inordinate focus on the issue.
The media's attention to one issue could not be blamed as she was led to believe.
She blamed the media for the unexpected focus on a single issue.
In that moment Tuppence knew that the fish was hooked, and for the first time she felt a horror of her own money-loving spirit.
Tuppence realized that it was the end, and she felt fear for the first time.
Tuppence felt even braver when she realized everything was going to end.
Like me, he had been driven nearly mad from the bloodshed and battle.
He was upset by the battles.
He wasn't bothered by the fighting.
The Bournemouth train left at 3.30.
The train left at 3.30
The train never made it out of the station.
But mostly there is the spectacle of technique brought to bear on form; and although this is a minimal definition of art, there is nothing minimal about the results.
The art may be minimal but the results are not.
The art technique is overly complicated and has many steps.
Large areas of the site have been excavated and the archaeological museum houses a comprehensive collection of finds from the site.
There is a comprehensive collection of finds being housed in the museum.
Only a small area of the site has been excavated.
A description of this process is provided in the following case example.
The following example has a description of the process.
The example of the process is not provided.
I wonder
Let's think.
The situation is pretty straight forward.
yeah i like that one um i haven't seen it in a while
It has been a while since I've seen it.
I saw that one recently.
and then they have the uh what they call the shoot which is uh it's a bypass around the dam where they have uh the comes right through the downtown part of New Braunfels
There's a bypass around the dam that goes through downtown New Braunfels.
There's no bypass for the dam.
Barnes won't lack for clients.
Barnes will have many clients.
Barnes will severely lack clients.
yes because the character the the character that is so horrible is another human being And you're just drawn into his his horror of him that you begin to kind of like him
Even though he is horrible, you can't help but sympathize with him.
The characters is quite nice, but I can't relate to him at all.
The test, which was organized by the agency's contingency planning group, proved extremely successful in identifying plan weaknesses and in dramatically sensitizing employees to the value of anticipating and being prepared for such events.
The test was successful in finding weak areas of the plan and getting the employees ready.
No useful data was gleamed from the results of the test.
Set against the solipsistic identity politics of the rest of the show, Kentridge's old-school agitprop is nearly refreshing.
Kentridge's old-school agitprop has politics people can identify with.
Kentridge had a bad show because he kept talking about politics
This suppression has helped legitimize the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) , a quasi-Marxist guerrilla group that champions Kurdish autonomy.
The PKK is a guerrilla group that champions Kurdish autonomy.
The PKK is woman's knitting circle.
yeah i mean it was terrible so really the plants that i brought over and put out here the are just about all i don't do any of the mowing or you know edging and all that my husband does all that stuff
I don't do any of the lawn care because my husband does all of that.
i do all of the lawn care and my husband watches me.
of air attacks.
Attacks from above.
Of ground assaults.
Overhype is, in its way, a strategically brilliant term.
Overhype is a brilliant term.
Overhype is not a real term.
By comparing the cost per case of a particular grantee over a period of time, LSC may gain useful information on the workload and performance of a program from year to year.
LSC is able to compare the cost per case of a particular grantee over time.
LSC doesn't track workloads or performance of individual grantees.
yeah big time i i'll bet they could hold their own in the NBA
I bet they'd do OK in the NBA.
They would suck in the NBA.
Do you think we are little children to let you walk out of here leaving us a pretty story full of promises?
You cannot leave if we think you are lying.
They believed all her lies without question.
(Is there really a pile of money?
Is a lot of money really there?
Are you really broke?
In its submission, EPA did not identify any other statute or executive order imposing procedural requirements relevant to the final rule.
The EPA failed to show any relevant documentation in regard to the final rule.
The EPA did show lots of relevant documentation in regard to the final rule.
Jon bowed.
Jon took a bow.
Jon bowed, tripped over his feet and fell over.
well i guess then i will go but i made me stop and think a minute about
You really made me think before I jumped into it.
I don't think I'll do it.
so it's supposed to be real bad driving tomorrow afternoon
Tomorrow evening will not be conducive to driving.
I would start the road-trip tomorrow afternoon.
The tombs of the Conqueror and his wife are in the walled graveyard behind the mosque.
A wall surrounds the graveyard where the conqueror and his wife are buried
The conqueror and his wife are buried behind a cathedral
The price differential between Priority Mail and single piece parcels is very small.
The cost between Priority Mail and single piece parcels is minimal.
The price difference between Priority Mail and single piece parcels is huge.