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Word: explaining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Police report that, according to its statistics, no crimes have been committed at the University since January 1. Asked to explain, Police Chief David Gorski attributes the data to "altruistic New Year's resolutions...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: Predictions, 1977: Standing With Pat | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...days after University officials announce a $25 million "Fund for the Upcoming Future" fund-raising campaign, L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions at Harvard and Radcliffe, announces that every member of the Class of 1981 is also the son or daughter of Harvard or Radcliffe graduates. Asked to explain the unusually high percentage, Jewett declares, "They just happened to be the most qualified...

Author: By Charlie Shepard, | Title: Predictions, 1977: Standing With Pat | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard must take measures to actively disseminate its policy internally and externally by informing employees, minorities and women's organizations of its AA policies, publishing progress reports and articles about AA efforts and meeting with management and supervisory personnel to explain the policy and their responsibility for its effective implementation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Task Force on Affirmative Action: Building a Mass Movement | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...changed my mind about that. In whatever way I can be open, I'll do it-with frequent press conferences, fireside chats to explain complicated issues, perhaps with town-hall-type forums around the country, where I answer questions from the public. I think, on occasion, I might very well have Cabinet meetings open for a limited number of news people to come in. I would have a fairly steady stream of visitors-just average Americans whom we've met during the campaign from around the country-to come in and spend a night with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Carter: I Look Forward to the Job | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...pupils spinning like pinwheels, has a good few minutes at the beginning of the movie. So does Director Pierson, as he captures the schizy, druggy, enclosed, exploding tension of rock superstardom. After that, Kristofferson-playing the Norman Maine surrogate, John Norman Howard-is required to freak for Esther and explain his love by comparing the experience to fishing for marlin. It is the rendering of the romance that lays the movie low for good. John Norman (both names, please) is suicidal apparently because, like the film makers, he can not make up his mind whether to be Jim Morrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Barbra, a One-Woman Hippodrome | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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