Word: explained
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...questioning fled the scene at the first lull in the conversation. One notable and charming exception was the four members of the U.S. Olympic softball team in attendance, who sat down, formal gowns and all, in the press dining room and dined on Caesar salad while trying to explain their efforts to get the sport reinstated to the Games...
...What has made patronymic names practical, however, doesn?t explain what made them fashionable. The revival of Nordic traditions may be a reaction to the cultural impact of globalization. Two years ago, some descendants of the Vikings took another major step into to the past when the pagan Asa religion was granted official recognition, granting tax benefits to those organizing the worship of Odin, Thor and other Norse gods. "It's all the same movement," says Senior Researcher Else Marie Kofod of the Danish Folklore Archives. "In these years, many old traditions are revived because there is a need...
...would if I needed a quick shorthand and I didn?t have time to explain the nuances. Personally, I would describe what I do as romantic comedies and light comic contemporary fiction...
Homeland security�secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...
...National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice writes an impassioned Op-Ed for the New York Times calling Iraq's 12,200-page weapons declaration to the U.N. in December nothing more than a "lie" that "fails to account for or explain Iraq's efforts to get uranium from abroad...