Word: explained
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...threat of China's increasing production power looms over the European luxury-goods business, two Italian industrialists and one designer explain why the unique craftsmanship characterizing their brands may just be the best excuse to pay higher labor costs and keep their business close to home
...making phone calls thinking, ‘There must’ve been a car accident.’”Meanwhile, the doctors in Pittsfield misunderstood the severity of the injury. Relying on x-rays to review the bone breaks, they couldn’t explain why the bleeding would not stop.A specialist was brought in to examine the injury. The diagnosis: an artery behind Brown’s left eye had ruptured. It took an emergency blood transfusion and another surgery, this time a reconstruction of Brown’s eye socket and nose in Keene...
...aftermath of University President Lawrence H. Summers’ resignation, a range of theories has been offered to explain what went wrong. Generating much heat but little light, every media outlet blamed a different culprit, from a hard-left faculty of “feminazis” to structural problems in Harvard’s system of governance. Unfortunately, with the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ continued silence on the issue, what Pforzheimer House Master James J. McCarthy called “uninformed and/or misinformed” speculation may be the best explanation that the Harvard community gets...
...explain their silence, Faculty members cite their unwillingness to discuss confidential academic matters in public. In other words, they have all the information to convince us, but for reasons of university security they can’t reveal any of it. Isn’t that what the Bush administration is saying about its illegal wiretapping...
...they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions in the case of rape or incest, that are favored even by the ?pro-life President? in the White House...