Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stung by the growing number of his critics, Mitterrand went on national television last week to explain that his foreign policy should be judged by long-range results rather than day-to-day appearances. Though the opposition remained unconvinced, Roland Cayrol, a pollster for Louis Harris voiced his belief that Mitterrand's performance would produce "a positive effect" on public opinion...
...race's future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast (Keir Dullea, HAL 9000, the monolith) to help provide the inspirational capper. Flash: There...
...Administration sought to stem the rising tide by having Chester Crocker, Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs, explain the Administration's policy of "constructive engagement." Crocker complained that the policy, largely his creation, has been misunderstood. "It is not an embracing of any status quo," he said, adding that the U.S. has supported those black union leaders, students, clergymen and businesses seeking reforms in South Africa. The Administration contends that economic sanctions have rarely proved effective and could not be expected to have a great influence on such an embedded practice as apartheid. Jimmy Carter's more...
...voters in their infinite wisdom are always right, as Sidey suggests, how does he explain their choice of Richard Nixon, Herbert Hoover, Warren Harding and other disasters...
During a confrontation with FBI agents the day after Thanksgiving, according to the FBI affidavit, Koecher "voluntarily made and signed a written statement" admitting the theft and cigarette-pack transaction. Officials would not explain why he had confessed or why he was allowed to roam free for the five days before his arrest...