Word: explained
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...main consideration for a Chinese journalist is whether an article is profitable for the government and for the people. "If it's good, then we can write it," Yang says. Moreover, the primary duty of the press is to explain Chinese policy and to convince the people that the policy is right, she continues. "Of course, we only say the truth, not the false," Hsiao adds...
...period are lifted from the underbelly of a renascent Italy. The brilliantly translated "Dollars and the Demimondaine" is typical of the lot. A black-market moneychanger and his wife go looking for business in a bar frequented by Americans, but the women is mistaken for a prostitute. Unable to explain what he really wants and afraid of Yankee cuckoldry, the hapless Italian runs out and gets every hooker in town to distract the soldiers. The result is party Pi Eta style...
...garment became something of a trademark. On Tuesday night, the sweater was back, and so too, it seemed, was Rather's cold. Was he fighting a cold or fatigue--and if so, was he using speed to do the trick? No, most probably not, but that at least would explain his ballpark behavior. "Ronald Reagan is like the Babe Ruth of politics," Rather said, leaning forward intently. "The old democratic coalition is going"--right arm waves frantically to the side--"going"--a little more frantic waving--"gone!--waving climaxes and is accompanied by a little jump from seat. Ever...
Specifically, Gottlieb was able to logically explain how a line of text from his submitted analysis of Emanual Kant ended up in a news article on rape in an entirely different publication...
When the disease first appeared five years ago, it seemed an impenetrable mystery. The best minds in medicine could not explain the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) or why it mainly struck homosexual men, intravenous drug users, Haitians and hemophiliacs. Nor could they begin to cure it. Six months ago came news of a breakthrough: scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in Bethesda, Md., and the Pasteur Institute in Paris had discovered a virus that seemed to be closely related to, if not the cause of, the epidemic. The finding was hailed by Secretary of Health...