Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think this helps to explain the success of Social Analysis 10. He understood very well what perspective the undergraduates had," Goulder added...
...referring to the disruption his attendance at a worship service might cause, Reagan said last week of his churchgoing, "I miss it very much. But I represent too much of a threat to too many other people for me to be able to go to church." That does not explain why Reagan has shown no interest in inviting clergymen to conduct services in the White House, as Richard Nixon did, or at Camp David, which was Jimmy Carter's practice...
...become practically impossible by week's end to explain away the swift, spectacular surge of popularity for Gary Hart. It was also practically impossible to explain. All sorts of Americans, Western conservatives and Eastern liberals, clean-cut Jaycees and long-haired factory workers, seemed to fall head over heels for the concept of Gary Hart. For a year he had been one more dark horse in a forgettable pack of dark horses, a sleek but uninspiring Senator from Colorado. His campaign of "new ideas" went nowhere. Walter Mondale, the shoo-in, treated him like an earnest graduate assistant...
...poor soil condition and abnormal climatic changes. Experts note that the decline began about the time of the great Northeast drought of the early 1960s. "Drought is undoubtedly a major component of a large part of the decline," says Robert Rosenthal of the EPA. "But it doesn't explain it all. There is pretty good evidence that there are air pollution effects." Plant Pathologist Robert Bruck of North Carolina State University points out that tree growth slowed down in the early 1960s, just after extensive industrial expansion in the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Says he: "Pollution from these industries...
...intellectual debate. In economics, Marxists have attempted to look beyond the laws of supply and demand, focusing instead on the relations of employers and workers, thus breathing a little life and relevance into an often abstract discipline. In history, Marxists have introduced class as a variable helping to explain the shaping of society...