Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...headline on the story of his presidency, to get ahead of historians before they get ahead of him. "I think the American people intuitively understand this is a big and different time," he said last week in an interview with TIME. "I'd like to try to explain it a little more...
...Clinton's very struggle to define his presidency may be the best evidence that it eludes the coherence he so desperately wants to give it. Would Ronald Reagan ever have needed to explain his significance to historians? In the TIME/CNN poll, 52% of the respondents ranked Reagan among the good or great Presidents, but only 34% felt that way about Clinton. The largest share, 48%, rated him average. They say this even while a 64% majority acknowledge that Clinton has accomplished at least as much for the country as Reagan did, or more. Critics of Clinton will undoubtedly say that...
...sent to the bench as a result of CBS's acquisition of its AFC rights, had to resort to claiming rational behavior to explain coming up empty-handed. Executives at the unit of giant General Electric called the contract bids "reckless," saying it wasn't worth more than $340 million a year to keep the AFC rights, the weakest in the package, or more than $500 million a year to obtain Monday Night, considered the strongest. "There was no chance of making money in this deal," said Dick Ebersol, president of NBC Sports, after the announcements. "I'll guess...
...says he once reprimanded two editors for parodying a professor in the Confidential Guide in "a tasteless fashion." He says, "I called them in and tried to explain to them how damaging and hurtful it was to the professor involved...
...survive and to prosper, any community needsa newspaper. A community's newspaper will be itsvoice and its conscience: it will prod, it willprotest, it will expose, and it will complain; itwill report, it will explain, and it will givepraise when praise is due. It will notphilosophize, and it will be read. The communitywill support it, and it will keep the communityalive...