1. We owe too much to our new manager. Our company was heavily in debt when he took it over. We owed the bank more than 50 million.

2. I owe you an apology. I shouldn’t have acted the way I did the other day. I was a real fool.

3. Socrates, who was perhaps the most virtuous man of his time, was charged with corrupting youth. It bears out the truth that people are often blind to plain truth.

4. This otherwise popular man is now in a terrible fix. He has been accused of raping a black woman. He will be put on trial soon. If the verdict is guilty, he will have to serve a long prison term.

5. The Congress will vote on this new tax law next week. The Republicans are expected to vote against it. They seldom vote otherwise.

6. Kennedy was the first Catholic in US history to be voted into the White House. This was the clear evidence that people were more tolerant about their religious differences.

7. More and more people now favor the idea of making it a legal obligation for government officials to disclose their assets.

8. He knew that he would risk being isolated if he stuck to his view although he was entitled to it.

9. One of the issues that remain in question in the conflict between Israel and Palestine is the future of Jerusalem. There doesn’t seem to be any room for compromise.

10. It reminds me of how we all tired to “cook” steel in our backyard stoves in 1958. In hindsight we seemed to be completely out of our minds. Please remind me to tell you this story in our class tomorrow.