Word: explained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult, however, to explain the case of Louie Nassaney of Van Nuys, Calif., a robust 33-year-old who has defied doctors who told him in May 1983 that he had AIDS and would live for only three to six months. Today, even though he has Kaposi's sarcoma, tires easily and suffers from diarrhea, Nassaney works out for two hours in the gym three times a week, skis and plays racquetball. He shuns all prescription medicines, relying instead on a regimen of eight to twelve grams of vitamin C a day, garlic and herbs. His routine includes acupuncture...
Like a growing number of his countrymen, Duarte blames the Sandinistas' prefabricated revolutionary socialism for many of Nicaragua's economic woes. He turns to baseball, a game made popular in Nicaragua by U.S. Marines in the early part of the century, to explain what he feels needs to happen. "What do you do when a pitcher is getting hit out of the ball park?" he asks. "You change him and try someone with a fresh...
...other side, Gary Holmes, spokesman for the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, asserts that the plant-closing provision "will make our industries less competitive internationally . . . It injects rigidities into the system ((and)) makes it less flexible." But that does not explain why Japan, which has a notice system, and West Germany, where it is difficult to fire anyone, let alone close a whole plant, are competitive enough to force the U.S. to consider a sweeping trade bill...
...think it is difficult for Robert Stone to make clear moral choices when he has other economic interests to consider," Noah M. Berger '89 told him. "He has a responsibiltiy to explain his interests...
...watched," he recalls. Starting his career as a page at NBC in 1963, he eventually became a top executive at ABC, before moving to Paramount. Still, when he arrived for his first day on the job at Disney, he felt nervous. "I knew nothing and asked people to explain things to me," he admits...