Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...both males and females could mean that the results of future studies, based on a larger number of patients, will be more conclusive and more widely accepted. But future studies may only result in a few more casual theories spiralling off, and the development of a new theory to explain why anorexia is on the upswing...
...final score of 21-4 sounds outrageous, that's because it is. Sure, Jim Plunkett took the offense out west with him, but how does that explain the seven defensive miscues which the team committed...
...building in a state of gracious spaciousness. I am convinced that the knack of ignoring one's fellow man is a useful trait in an urban environment, one with which Americans have a good deal of trouble. Americans are always wanting to relate to everyone. How else can we explain the incredible hostility created by the appearance of long hair styles back in the sixties? In Europe no one much cared about how people cut their hair...
Here are the diplomatic wives who abruptly favor baggy proletarian garb. Here are commonplace people who refuse to take medicine when they are sick; as the Miltons explain, "denial of the flesh" was the sole means of self-sacrifice demanded by Maoism. When the upheaval spreads fear among "rightists," many join ultraleftist factions in frantic overcompensation...
...biggest problem for contemporary readers and for those future historians Nixon was so concerned about is the handling of sources and documentation. While All the President's Men was devoted to this problem, The Final Days ignores it altogether. In an unfortunately cryptic foreword, the authors explain that The Final Days is based on interviews with 394 people. "Some persons spent dozens of hours with us and volunteered information freely; one person was interviewed seventeen times." They go on to say that "many supplied us with contemporaneous notes, memoranda, correspondence, logs, calendars, and diaries." So far, so good...