Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult to explain why farmers hold such an exalted position in American politics. They represent only 2 percent of the populace, but nevertheless elected officials often bend over backwards to win their support...
...there was a dark side to his fame. The film shows girls who had been reduced to jelly at a Beatles concert aggressively piling on top of the band's limousine after the show. John tries in vain to explain to a hippie who has invaded his country estate that he didn't mean for his visitor to respond to his songs in such a personal way. "I was just playing with words," he says. The scene is a chilling premonition of John's final encounter with the fan who would kill him, an event depicted in Imagine...
...explain such differences in ability, "people will point to Japan and say that Japanese children are in math class longer than American children, but that [assertion is] not really true," Gleason says. "If you look around a foreign country and ask parents what they think, they say that if you work hard, you can do math...
...Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), which formulates Harvard's investment policies, sent letters last July to the two major American tobacco companies, RJR-Nabisco and Philip Morris, asking them to explain why they do not voluntarily follow the same marketing practices in other countries as they are legally required to do in America. Harvard has yet to receive a response...
...arrive (let's call it Kira's law: cosmic jokers all come out when you need a rest room). The stalls in the men's room have no doors, half the lights are out, and there are too many people hanging around doing nothing in particular. Upstairs, the guards explain that the men's room is a favorite spot for sexual assignations. Another men's room, on the second floor, had to be closed when patrons of the nearby children's reading room complained about what they...