Word: explainer
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That helps explain why the casinos' record on spurring nongambling economic growth is so spotty. Local restaurants are often squeezed out by cheap in-house casino eateries. Atlantic City, New Jersey, lost about a third of its retail businesses after casinos moved in and former customers gambled away their discretionary dollars. In South Dakota, when slot machines were legalized to revive the Black Hills resort of Deadwood, the three car dealerships, the hardware store, the clothing shop and the local Taco Bell all converted into mini-casinos--a more lucrative business, gutting the town's retail base...
...data packets. If you touch something that's dangerously hot, the appropriate electrical impulses go from hand to brain, which then sends impulses instructing the hand to recoil. In that sense, Cog is a good model of human data processing, just the kind of machine that Dennett believes helps "explain" consciousness...
...days at the children's hospital. She held the tiny girls for hours, offered them bottles and wore Patty's or Mike's sweatshirts so the girls would come to know their parents' scents. The task of informing friends and family fell to Mike. "It's pretty hard to explain to your folks how the kids were put together...
Carter makes no attempt to explain the integrity shortage, and one is tempted to attribute this omission to the limits of his own experiential database. Most of his anecdotal examples are drawn from a life lived almost entirely at the Yale School of Law, first as a student and then as a teacher, where the most vexing challenge to integrity seems to be grade inflation. When Carter does peek out briefly into the larger world of buying and selling, wheeling and dealing, he sniffs and retreats in disgust from that cesspool of hopeless mendacity. Advertising, he notes, is not always...
Whitewater will never be a mini-series--too much trailer park, too few Gulfstreams jetting to private islands, amounts in the low-six rather than high-seven figures, and a low quotient of hunks. That may explain why Democrats, who last May joined a 96-3 vote authorizing the ethically challenged Senator Alfonse D'Amato to chair the Whitewater Committee, now are holding firm against an open extension of the hearings. After eight months there's no smoking gun, no smoking anything, just a simmering stew of subdivided Ozark property without sewer lines and endless minutiae about closing costs...