Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hypothetical voice of a prospective nominee: "I make six figures and have an expense account that reaches from here to eternity. Tell me again why I would want to run the nomination gauntlet to toil away in a huge government bureaucracy." Statements like that help explain why a nominee like businessman and Democratic fund raiser Terry McAuliffe withdrew his name from consideration for Secretary of Commerce. Even hush-hush high finance isn't a draw: two governorships on the Federal Reserve are vacant. Any takers...
Lambert said she hopes the organizers of the petition will contact her so she can explain the reasons for closing the pool personally...
...economy's parts seem to be working together for a change: joblessness is under 5%--a 24-year low--yet inflation is holding steady at around 3%, a combination that economists thought impossible. Productivity is growing smartly, and consumer confidence is near an eight-year high, which may help explain why personal debt is climbing. And the twin banes of the 1990s--job insecurity and income inequality--show small signs of improvement...
...quicker to install wheelchair ramps than to offer the kind of flexibility Wozny's boss did. That is why in March the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued guidelines to help employers navigate the fuzzy, sometimes unquantifiable arena of mental illness in the workplace. The guidelines, addressing recent case law, explain how employers should attempt to accommodate mental disabilities that don't directly compromise a worker's qualifications...
...information on sleep patterns, mood swings and hormone levels, is an important step towards isolating a parallel gene in humans. This could allow scientists to zero in on the causes of diseases such as insomnia and depression that are related to disturbances in circadian rhythms. It may also help explain why medical conditions such as asthma and heart disease worsen at certain hours. To do so, scientists must isolate ten more genes related to bodily rhythms. Maybe even in humans...