Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...television news helicopter cir- cled that area, police, fire fighters,Chemistry Department officials and HarvardEnvironmental Health and Safety workers struggledto explain the explosion...
...That may explain why Pepper keeps pushing his wild-eyed theories, even after they have been shown to be fabrications. In his 1995 book, Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper claimed that a team of U.S. Army snipers was standing by in Memphis to shoot King if a Mafia hit man hired by the government had missed. Pepper wrote that army captain Billy Eidson, purported commander of the sniper team, could not be questioned because he had been murdered, presumably to assure his silence. Trouble is, Eidson is very much alive; he denies...
...documents obtained by TIME in a related case help explain the independent counsel's dilemma, showing at once why Starr has some reason to suspect a White House campaign to keep Webb Hubbell quiet and why any such campaign turned out to be impossible to prove. It has been known for a long time that Clinton's closest associates worked behind the scenes in 1994 to find employment for Hubbell, one of the President's best pals. He had just resigned as Associate Attorney General amid allegations that he bilked clients and his law firm while a Little Rock partner...
...Percentage of FORTUNE 1000 executives who could explain what a modem does...
MITCHELL JOHNSON, 13, was "shocked" at what the press wrote about him, so he wanted to explain publicly why he and ANDREW GOLDEN, 11, shot up their Arkansas school, killing four classmates and a teacher. So says Tom Furth, the Ohio lawyer hired by the boy's father. Last Friday ABC's BARBARA WALTERS on 20/20 was prepared to air Mitch Johnson's version of the day of the shooting, as related by Furth. But that afternoon the piece was abruptly dropped...