Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charming Autocrat. The shake-up at Black Rock, as the CBS glass-and-granite monolith on Sixth Avenue is known, caught the broadcast industry by surprise-including senior executives at CBS. "This comes as a complete bolt out of the blue," said a corporate spokesman, struggling to explain the changes. What everyone wanted to know was: Why? Why had Taylor been fired after leading CBS to ever greater financial success and presumably having been selected by Paley to succeed him? Why had Backe, who had no experience in broadcasting-the heart of CBS's operations-been chosen...
...also scanned the hair for all elements heavier than magnesium, but found no consistent patterns that could explain the Legionnaires' poisoning...
...Introduction to American Government," usually reflects national events, with enrollment rising in election years. But this year the course dropped from third place right out of the top ten--a circumstance James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and an instructor in the course, said last week he cannot explain...
...boulders get up there? That's the key to this mysterious valley. Geologists explain that the place is made of tufa, a soft rock deposited by the nearby volcano Ercyas Dagi. Harder rocks were interspersed with the soft tufa, protecting what lay beneath them from the rainwater that eroded the rest of the valley. As the land level declined, these peculiar shapes of tufa with boulders on top of them were left behind. In most cases the tufa columns wore away so much that their rock capitals eventually fell off; these columns have since sharpened to a fine point...
While questions are still being raised regarding the criteria used for enrollment in my Currier House course on Biology and Women's Issues, I should like to explain why I believe that it may be legitimate in some cases to select as participants in a course women, or blacks, or some other group which historically has not been represented in the elaboration of the traditional, accepted view that constitutes our perception of "reality" in a particular field...