Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mainly, however, Sato will be anxious to probe the whole range of U.S. policy in Asia, especially policy toward Communist China. He will explain Japan's viewpoint on trade with Peking: that commerce should be separated from politics. Fact is, Washington is not overly concerned about Japanese commerce with the Reds; after all, it amounts to less than 2% of Japanese foreign trade, and Peking's permanent shortage of foreign exchange is a built-in brake...
...satirist (Cards of Identity) of no mean attainment, Author Dennis has an acute affinity for his subject. More clearly than any of Swift's latter-day biographers, he looks into the works as into a window on the man, and arranges the facts of his life to explain the state of his soul...
Indeed, Rudolph's problems seems to be that he can't get things done. Last June, he instituted a much-publicized anti-jaywalking ordinance. Shortly thereafter, he had to explain to the press that the law couldn't go into effect. The Police Department didn't have any jay-walking tickets and didn't plan to get any. Perhaps Rudolph should have taken Chief of Police Daniel J. Brennan in on plans...
...while, astronomers tried to explain how such ordinary-looking stars could produce large quantities of radio waves. But they made no progress, and two years ago Dr. Schmidt made things worse. With Dr. Jesse Greenstein, Schmidt photographed the spectra of four of the radio-loud "stars" with the 200-in. Palomar telescope and found evidence of ultraviolet light that had increased in wave length until it became visible light...
...imagining giant stars that collapse with the speed of light: they have theorized about galaxies with negative mass, or tight clusters of extra-large stars that detonate like supernovae when a shock wave passes through them. But none of these ideas has won acceptance, and none has begun to explain the fact that quasars flicker strangely, varying in brilliance as much as 10% a month...