Word: explaines
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk to people on the Hill, because they're looking for information on how institutions such as Harvard work from the inside, so they can write legislation that works," Brewer says. Harvard administrator often work with staff people to explain what may make a certain bill unworkable in light of Harvard's procedure or policy, Brewer adds...
...matter. Billy was in his element, reveling in himself, his nouveau wealth, his friends-good ole boys and all -and the members of his family about whom he still cares. Actually Billy cares about a lot of people and things, but he chooses, for reasons Freud could explain even if Billy could not, to express his caring through outrageous behavior and flamboyantly bad taste. Jana's wedding was more than simply a wedding: it was Billy's great work of art, his moment of total self-expression...
...denied wrongdoing. "My only mistake has been in putting too much trust in some of my business friends," she said. She received scores of letters and calls from well-wishers. Friends raised $4,000 so that she could explain herself on TV. Supporters crowded into the courtroom during the three-day trial. Said she: "I've got whole churches praying...
...slaughtered Europeans had been killed in clusters-including one group of 34 who were gunned down in a small room of a house where they had taken refuge. Bodies were left lying in the streets for days. The Zaïre news agency AZAP lamely tried to explain that "for purposes of identification and to facilitate the work of the press and the Red Cross, all bodies have been left at the spot where they were killed." As the stench became intolerable and the threat of a cholera epidemic grew, Red Cross officials recruited local workers, provided them with masks...
...Argentines are all too aware of the possibilities for terrorist violence during the World Cup. In August 1976, as he was on his way to explain at a press conference the workings of the Cup organizing committee, which he had been chosen to head, retired Argentine Army General Omar Actis was ambushed and machine-gunned by Montoneros guerrillas. Montoneros members are known to be discussing the fomenting of demonstrations during the series, though they are also thought by most authorities to have decided that violence in the soccer stadiums themselves (the games will be played at six sites prior...