Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader of the band began the evening by addressing the crowd of some 50 students and community members. After describing his troubled past, which included drug addiction and involvement in a Satanic cult, he proceeded to explain that his life had undergone a dramatic "change for the better," when, as a last resort, he decided to "ask God to come into his life...
...submarine USS West Virginia off the coast of Florida, says the FAA. Because the night was very clear, the missiles, fired eastward over the Atlantic toward the Azores, could have been visible from afar, says the Navy. But Navy Captain Michael Doubleday doubted that the test could explain the pilots' sightings. "It stretches the imagination that anybody could see 1,900 to 2,000 miles, no matter what altitude they are flying at," he said. The fact that the planes and the missiles were headed in different directions would make it even more improbable, he added. Missile theorists, collect your...
...Jordan is flanked by Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and Toni Kukoc. This still doesn't explain much...
...resolve to call the Yankees. I hunt down a phone number, and soon I'm talking to a man in the team's media relations office. I begin to explain my interest in a few minutes of phone time with Zimmer, but the guy cuts me off. They only take faxed requests, he says, and immediately his tone tells me that I'm not the first person to call about scheduling an interview. Once he receives my fax, he explains, he'll forward it to the media liaison who is on the road with the team in Seattle...
...about time somebody attempted to explain why costs are rising instead of suggesting ways in which people can save for these hikes. This is a perfect example of how greedy capitalism is dismantling the American Dream. DANIEL CASTELO Cleveland, Tennessee...