Word: explaination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...year at the Graduate School of Education where he has been studying people working for their Doctorates of Education. This year's diary thus contains notes and sketches from his interviews with doctoral candidates. Goodfriend seeks to learn why and how people obtain Ed. D.s, and perhaps thereby to explain his sense of "disillusionment and despair" about the educational process. "The assumption is that people who come out of a prestigious school like Harvard have some impact on the educational system," he says, but cautions that although his paper may help identify some of the problems of the educational system...
Once, during Johnson's years, when the presidential light blinked there was banging on the line. Finally L.B.J. came on to explain that his grandson Patrick Lyndon Nugent "is breaking up the phone." Another time Johnson was cut off three times at the other end of his connection, and he rasped to Burns, "Honey would you mind reading a magazine and letting me finish my call...
...difference between conditions in Saudi Arabia and Iran helps explain why the entire crescent can be so difficult to understand and predict. Unlike the Shah, a stern, remote and isolated figure, the huge Saudi ruling family, with its estimated 5,000 princes, has its roots in the lives of its people. Its members are married into the families of commoners all over the country. They take their places in the chain of command below nonroyal superiors in the civil service. Saudi rulers take their "desert democracy" seriously: even the lowliest citizen can approach King Khalid or Crown Prince Fahd with...
...halfway hoped that it would be him. Then madness would explain madness, and my own fragile world would still be intact...