Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Progressive Conservative Party leader at the time was Robert Stanfield, a long-time member of Parliament from Eastern Canada. Stanfield's strategy rested upon a poorly-conceived, loosely-defined economic platform designed to control inflation. Stanfield said he planned to institute wage and price controls--but he didn't explain how he would implement them or how they would work. Trudeau hammered at Stanfield's equivocal policy, made leadership the key issue, and regained a majority government...
Unbridled confidence is the only way, for instance, to explain Pompan's belief that he has any chance today in his confrontation at number one against Princeton's Jay Lapidus, the ball-crushing seventh-ranked player in the country. The two have never played before, but Lapidus has beaten or lost narrowly to every top college player and even given a scare to some top pros...
...recognize the European human rights convention as national law. Its own constitution is largely unwritten; there is no bill of rights set above the power of Parliament. That makes it more difficult to persuade a British court that the government has trespassed on individual rights. And it helps explain why so many Britons turn to Strasbourg for redress...
Though the companies are only doing what is necessary to keep the oil flowing, their public-image difficulties are compounded by one economic fact that no oilman can explain away: for better or for worse, the Seven Sisters, and many of their smaller competitors as well, have interests that are often parallel to those of the price-gouging OPEC cartel...
...broader landscape, carefully filling in details of the so-called phage group, a small band of mostly ex-physicists who decided to use bacteria-eating viruses as a kind of genetic scalpel; the virtually forgotten work of Rockefeller Institute's Oswald Avery; the painstaking efforts of scientists to explain exactly how DNA and its kin, RNA (for ribonucleic acid), performed their magic; and finally the patient toil of Britain's Max Perutz, who unraveled the structure and precise workings of the blood's oxygen-carrying molecule that, in complexity of design, is to DNA what a skyscraper...