Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaction during the 1972 occupation of Mass Hall showed, through demonstrations. But after students have had their voice, the Corporation still does what it wants to. Last year President Bok even suggested the ROTC should come back--speaking as a private citizen, not a university president, he hastened to explain...
...wondered why there were not more stories in which his supporters explain their enthusiasm. One reason, he was told, is that many of his new adherents are vague on the subject of Hart: his "freshness" is often the only explanation offered. "But you can't expect people to be as articulate on the issues as you are," he said. "People didn't know the details of Kennedy's foreign policy or Ike's farm policy...
...SEEM petty to harp on how Reagan looks in a verbatim transcript. Most people's everyday speech would look atrocious transcribed word for word. But the content made no more sense than the phrasing; Reagan, was being asked to explain his views on specific issues and he should be able to communicate ideas, if not a fact or two as well...
...desire for a stamped identity card simply can't explain why so many Salvadorans would go so far and wait so long to vote when simple excuses--guerilla intimidation or bureaucratice confusion--could always explain an abstention. And most importantly, the voters had a clear choice: they could pick either the murderous reactionary D'Abuisson or the conservative Guerrero and moderate Duarte...
Soon Reagan called. In fact, he was able to explain the misunderstanding. He regarded the new arrangement as a mere housekeeping detail, a formality. Lack of communication, aggravated by staff mischief, was the root problem. I was convinced that Ed Meese had been as misled as the President. The trouble lay elsewhere in the President's staff...