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Word: explaines (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: One More Time | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Don Pompan: The Harvard Tennis Team's Lively Ace | 5/9/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: A Scandal Too Long Concealed | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside the Big Oil Game | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Detective Story | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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