Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...older generation found it difficult to teach us about the birds and the bees, my generation will find it impossible. How will I explain "XM & YD by AI with Gestation M" to my daughter when she asks me where babies come from...
...administration, eager to cover itself as the Presidential election draws near, has tried to explain away the terrorist success, shrugging its shoulders and blaming the Carter administration, even comparing the delays in security construction to problems people have when they redo their kitchens. Only infilitration of terrorist sects can stop their attacks, Reagan said, and suggested two days ago that the real fault lies with "the near destruction of our intelligence capability" in the years before his administration...
Students rallied around their professor and have written letters to Martin and Spence asking to explain the why the money would have been denied. But, they were as surprised as their professor when the donation came through...
...views on the subject in an open letter to the Harvard community. Not since the early 1970s have college campuses had to confront the specter of angry hecklers drowning out or scaring away invited speakers, but with the return of the custom, President Bok thought it time to explain why the thing is important. But though this is a good, workman-like job, Bok's discourse leaves a sour taste--and the feeling that he has expended a lot of hot air at the expenses of moral leadership...
...understands that defending free speech means more than mouthing pieties about its importance in a democratic society. Thus, after a brief detour to explain first principles, he devotes the bulk of his letter to commenting on individual issues relating to free speech. While he admits, with Bokian modesty, that he cannot "pretend to answer all the questions and problems that could arise involving free speech," he does manage to provide a good number of thoughtful answers...