Word: explained
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...usually a bad idea to try to explain things that do not make sense. It is counterintuitive that expensive phones should sell well when the economy is shrinking, the credit markets look like a dust bowl, and people are losing jobs...
...full transcript with you because you will see it too - because that's my intention, to disclose whatever I read to the public, and we'll see what I said, to whom, and the context in which I said it. And at that point, I'd be happy to explain anything I can remember or the logic or the illogic of anything I may have said." (Read "Harman Defends Herself on MSNBC...
...highest-ranking Wall Streeter to make the move so far. Earlier this year, after Merrill was acquired by Bank of America, Fleming decided to exit the newly combined firm for Yale Law School. This semester, he is teaching a class that brings financial professionals to New Haven to explain the economic events of the past year - and the class is drawing praise not just from students but other teachers. (Read "Facebook's Latest Role: College Guidance Counselor...
Interestingly, however, other traits that you might consider advantageous had no impact in this study on whether participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old (which might explain the long life of the smoking French lady). Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those cantankerous old people who are fixed in their ways...
...voices discussing the fortunes of the Celtics, Pats, Bruins and Sox, you are reminded how deeply interwoven sport is with the fabric of society; you are reminded how, even in the commercially driven world of American sports, the affinity connecting fan and sport is universal.Ultimately, one word can succinctly explain the difference of American sport: scale. In terms of land mass, it would take slightly over 31 British Islands to fill the United States of America. In a country of three time-zones, where your roommate can go skiing and you to a tropical beach simultaneously, it is hardly...