Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inefficient use of present facilities, said Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner in a report issued the day after Johnson's message, helps to explain last year's staggering 16.5% jump in the cost of hospital care. Before embarking on an expensive new expansion program, he indicated, the Government should rigorously examine the programs it already...
...been a good week for Romney, either. Earlier, he futilely tried to explain away his recent description of Percy as an "opportunist" (what he meant, said Romney, was that Percy "had a good sense of timing"). Next, Barry Goldwater did nothing to help him by declaring that the Governor just might make an acceptable candidate-"if he comes back to the Republican Party." And the morning after his disappointing dinner performance, Romney even overslept until the slugabed hour-for him-of 6:30, was so rattled that he arrived at a G.O.P. breakfast in mismatched pants and coat...
...good as I knew she could be, as I believed with every nerve and fiber God himself had intended her to be." It was largely his desire to see his country as great as it should be that drove Harry Luce, by his rights, to want to explain it to itself and to others. Perhaps he succeeded a little...
...Left is that the world is in the midst of profound cultural and political changes and that the church should make sure that whatever society emerges is Christian in tone and outlook. To a man, its adherents admit to being followers of Karl Marx-not, they explain, the turgid economist of Das Kapital, but the youthful, philosophical Marx who protested against man's alienation in a dehumanized industrial society...
...this context, I can explain my candidacy for SDS co-chairman. Unlike my friends who disrupted the meeting (they also made a complete mockery of the YR elections) I had a serious mission -- not to take over SDS by force (I did not organize the large-scale YR attendance), but to demonstrate the need for communication. I never anticipated election, although I would have served...