Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Because Ball did not explain the way the jackpot would be distributed, some pool shoppers were concerned that he was skimming money off the top, according to Ball...
Nevertheless, it is only through verbal chicanery and logical leaps that one can conclude that the sphere of privacy covers any private consensual act. If a woman's control over her body were paramount, then we could not explain restrictions against drug use, organ sales, prostitution and suicide...
That would explain the vehemence with which tobacco is fighting back--in some cases pre-emptively. Industry lawyers have already filed suits trying to block the possible Maryland and Texas cases. In West Virginia, Governor W. Gaston Caperton, with the support of several of his own judicial appointees, has for now effectively scuttled that action by suing his own attorney general, Darrell McGraw, on the grounds that he did not have the authority to file a Medicaid suit. A few weeks ago, Mississippi Governor Kirk Fordice, following Caperton's example, filed a similar suit against attorney general Moore. Fordice, though...
There may be an even more dangerous synergy at work, according to Alan Leshner, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Every substance that is addicting leads to an increase in dopamine levels in the brain," he says. That may help explain why people who abuse one substance so often abuse another. Fowler likens the effect to creating a biochemical pathway or channel: "A drug may leave an imprint in the brain, so that the next drug becomes more pleasurable than it would otherwise." In short, the brain gets into a rut that just grows deeper and deeper...
...just wouldn't make sense for an extraterrestrial to go after Buchanan--unless Steve Forbes is an extraterrestrial, which would explain why he can't click off that otherworldly grin...