Word: explaination
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moment the International Mission Board reflected on its own actions--it might realize the darkness in its heart. Maybe I should visit them on Dec. 25 at their Virginia headquarters to explain it to them...
...There was some statistical correlation between higher tuition and subsequent higher earnings, but Krueger and Dale couldn't explain it," Samuelson said. " I don't consider it an important finding...
Some of those ideas might help explain why the candidate and his campaign have been so reluctant to say anything about Wolf. In her most recent best seller, Promiscuities, Wolf argues, among other things, that schools should teach teenagers the techniques of "sexual gradualism"--masturbation, mutual masturbation and oral sex--because it is more realistic than abstinence and safer than intercourse. "If we teach kids about other kinds of sexual exploration that help them wait for intercourse until they are really ready, we let girls find out about their desire...and let kids have an option not to go immediately...
...these myths and folktales exist? Why are they so powerful? The reasons are twofold; we want to explain the unexplainable, and we want to believe the unbelievable. We want the opportunity to contemplate something other than the corporeal humdrum of everyday life. We want the vicarious thrill of hearing an answer to our most outrageous queries of What if? "The X-Files," then, can be seen as our filtration of mysticism through a more modern lens, with the paranoia of government conspiracy and the growing fears associated with the introduction of technology such as the Internet serving as appropriate...
...Consolidating numbers three through infinity in the remainder of her tirade, or perhaps just losing count, Schor ignores the concerned whisperings of the salespeople and goes on to explain how modern clothing stores capitalize on and perpetuate a shrinking fashion cycle. As wardrobes expand, she says, the fashion cycle shrinks...