Word: explained
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...Portland, Ore., even offers a short list of after-dinner beers. In March the Sheraton hotel chain Four Points named a chief beer officer to oversee its new lists of imported and regional craft beers. Meanwhile, waiters at the Michelin-starred Spotted Pig restaurant in New York City gently explain to patrons that cask-conditioned ales-- traditional British beers--are best se rved at a cellar temperature rather than ice cold...
...expect this nation to take you seriously as a leader and statesman after you stated at the GOP debate last month that you do not believe in evolution? -Michael Magee, San Diego, Calif.We were asked to raise our hand in response to a question, and it's difficult to explain your beliefs like that. I actually believe that evolution exists, but I also believe that creationism is the prime mover of that evolutionary process. So if I could explain it, maybe people would understand a little more about me, then they can decide to take me seriously...
...there he stands, extending a fatherly arm to the busloads of visitors that show up daily to see this collection of statuary, located next to the Generalissimo's mausoleum 40 km southwest of Taipei. Plaques inform inquisitive onlookers where each piece originated, but none of the candy-coated descriptions explain that this collection came into being because these statues are unwanted and have been dismantled from schools, colleges and municipal buildings across the island. The Chiang Kai-shek Statue Park, as it's known, may as well be called the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Dump...
...plan to make Barry profitable within the year. Good and the bankers traveled to Mexico to tour the company's factories and warehouses. They were aghast to see three plants running full throttle in January while the warehouses were bursting with 12 million pairs of slippers. Whoops. Asked to explain, the operations manager declared that inventory was not his responsibility. The bank called in the loan, giving the company five weeks...
...Bowie - a touch added courtesy of legendary producer Tony Visconti. And the album features a dazzlingly diverse set of collaborators - among them Alicia Keys, Branford Marsalis, Peter Gabriel, Mali's Amadou and Mariam, Ziggy Marley, German singer Joy Denalane and Italian Carmen Consoli. Some tracks almost seem designed to explain why they call it world music. Pearls, for example, is a Beninese cover of a Sade original that opens with the guitar and maracas of Carlos Santana, who is then joined by the American balladeer Josh Groban and Kidjo, in duet, singing: "There is a woman in Somalia...