Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Devastated residents struggled to explain how children so young could commit so horrifying an act. Their area of Richmond, an industrial city outside of Oakland, is poor and tough but not violence-ridden. "It's a predominantly quiet street," Ophelia Stringer told the Mercury News. "It's not all shooting and drugs. It bothers us that all people say we're in gangs and have dysfunctional families. It's not true. We're normal people." Agreed police sergeant Mike Walter: "This is not the sort of neighborhood where we've had this sort of thing before; there have been...
...drugs commonly used in the region, the leading relief group, Doctors Without Borders, says it would never prescribe such a medication in the camps. Even so, Lilly sent enough for 1.3 million people. Barrels containing 200,000 tablets each arrived in Rwanda, with only a handful of inserts to explain (in English) how they should be used. Today aid workers and local health officials are still trying to figure out how to dispose of 6 million pills, many of them expired...
...constitutionality of the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service, and other branches of government. Gritz announced the Freemen are prepared to surrender, "if the United States government can prove that the documents ... are not the law." The Freemen also sent out a videotape with Gritz in which they attempt to explain their actions. Gritz said he had not seen the tape, and called the negotiations "verbal judo all day." Gritz insisted Sunday that white separatist Randy Weaver accompany him on his second trip, but authorities in Washington refuse to let Weaver play a role in the stand-off. After his Saturday...
Harvard students were joined by students from Wellesley and Wheaton Colleges to explain and describe their senior theses, which ranged from "Time and Narrative in Gogol" by Yvonne Saenger '96 to "Political Risk and Foreign Investment in Russia" by Sara Su Jones...
...relatively small amount of job loss that is actually attributable to foreign competition, new technology and immigrant workers cannot possibly explain the magnitude of the job loss of the middle class, but it does provide plausible cover for the managers. The real explanation for the reduction in the number of jobs is the zillions of crazy deals cooked up by Wall Street for no other purpose than to generate fees, and the complicity of senior executives bought off with stock-option deals, bonuses and other payments. It is the operators and maneuverers who survive these deals, not the people doing...