Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...factual errors strewn throughout Mr. Duke's review, as I do not wish to be as wordy as he. But his writings and scholarship do make one wonder about the state of the liberal arts education at Harvard. Perhaps English is not Mr. Duke's first language. That would explain shot. Benjamin Hart Author of Poisoned...
...expect a Soviet propaganda campaign aimed at convincing U.S. allies, and world opinion generally, that a ban on Star Wars must be part of any new arms-control agreement. To get a head start on countering such pressure, members of Shultz's team fanned out to allied capitals to explain the U.S. position as soon as the Geneva talks ended. Kenneth Adelman, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, even ventured into Eastern Europe to talk to the leaders of Communist countries...
...anyone to muster much sympathy for them or their Miranda rights. The loathing for these villains/victims is universal. Columnist Jimmy Breslin says it is because of race. The four youths are black, Goetz is white. There may be some truth to that, but it does not begin to explain things. Millions of blacks and Hispanics ride the New York subways. Interviews with most show them to be as sympathetic to Goetz and as hostile to his attackers as whites...
...years of written history have demonstrated anything, it is that nobody can explain a Super Bowl in fewer than 38 million words, but a good description of the coming one is that Miami's fabled coach, Don Shula, and San Francisco's brainy Bill Walsh will be secondary figures Sunday at a new stop, old Stanford Stadium. This is the sophomore Marino's Super Bowl essentially, since Six-Year-Man Montana had one three years ago all his own, a special season that Defensive Coach Chuck Studley has particular cause to review. "In my opinion," says Studley, formerly...
...think it's any secret I dragged my heels a little bit. It was a series of conversations with Ronnie that would come up at strange times. He was trying to explain to me why he felt so strongly that he should run for a second term. I had reservations, and he knew what they were. But I never said, "No, I really don't want you to do it." And the more he talked . . . there comes a time when you put aside other considerations...