Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assault on Ferraro seemed almost gratuitous. Before addressing a pro-life convention in Altoona, Pa., New York Archbishop John J. O'Connor told reporters that Ferraro had "said some things about abortion relative to Catholic teaching which are not true." He did not immediately explain just what Ferraro had said or when she had said it. Puzzled and privately seething, the candidate tried to reach O'Connor between campaign appearances. She finally did so from Indianapolis. In what she described as a "cordial, direct and helpful" 35-minute telephone conversation, she politely asked the Archbishop what "mischaracterization...
...journalism seemed appropriate enough for helping drive Nixon from the White House. Applied as it is now, it takes on a new macabre element. In his own race through journalism, he has racked up enough points for the wrecked lives in his wake, but he's yet to fully explain just where he is going. It will remain for some more imaginative journalist than Woodward to define just what the end of this whole journalistic race is all about...
...their part, Harvard lawyers say the agreement was not that specific--that while Stillman did intend his money to see to Black Rock's upkeep, what he really wanted to support was Harvard forestry generally. In this context, they explain, the plan to shift the $2.4 million to the Petersham account is entirely ethical. Harvard's attorneys also consider the trust, which was established in 1940, and the forest, which was transferred to Harvard in June, 1950, six months after Stillman dies, technically separate gifts, and say the University has no responsibility to keep the money and the forest together...
...revelation touched off hot debate among scientists, and because most scholars reasoned that no known earthly phenomenon could explain the 26-million-year cycles astronomers quickly entered the picture...
Within days of the Raup-Sepkoski announcement, word of their work quickly spread to other areas of science. Astronomers leaped into the fray with the greatest zeal, and before long, the race was on to explain one of the most intriguing theories of life on earth...