Word: explained
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hard to know which was worse about Barack Obama's dismissal of small-town voters as narrow-minded, churchgoing gun nuts: the original arrogance of his remarks or his repeated attempts to explain them. If there was any consolation to a campaign facing its most serious test yet, it was that attempts by both Hillary Clinton and John McCain to make hay at his expense did not go over very well either--which just serves as one more reminder of the challenge politicians face when they talk to and about voters who have lost the most in the economic earthquakes...
...even taken together, all these factors don't explain the steep rise in caesareans over such a short time. Instead, says Eugene Declercq, a professor of maternal and child health at Boston University School of Public Health, the biggest change may simply be in the way we think about labor and delivery. In an increasingly technological and medicalized society, maybe even childbirth is losing some of its magic and becoming less about the miracle of life and more about simply getting a baby out safely and without incident. "We put a lot of emotional, psychological and spiritual value around birthing...
...pertain much more to your present occupation. Did your academic concentration influence your current job at all?JL: Definitely, in certain ways. Applied math is really hard. Most of the time, you didn’t understand what your professor was saying and had to have your TF explain it to you later. So at a certain point, your attitude becomes, “I’m pretty intelligent. So if I’m not understanding what you’re explaining to me, it’s not because I’m not smart enough, it?...
...special assembly in the school hall on Wednesday morning, principal Murray Burton read out the names of the dead. The six students - three boys and three girls - were all 16 years old; teacher Tony McClean was 29. Addressing an audience that included students, parents and politicians, Burton struggled to explain the tragedy to the community: "I don't mind if you're angry," Burton said. "Be angry at God because He can handle that. But keep trusting...
...medicine he's proposing for the international community - a reinvigorated multilateralism, in which nations work together through institutions like the United Nations, NATO, the IMF and the World Bank, coupled with radical reform of those bodies to make them fit for 21st century purposes - isn't simple to explain. Or sexy...