Word: explaining
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Arab friends of the P.L.O. explain away the bewildering variations in its spokesmen's positions partly as a word game and partly as a form of psychological warfare in response to Israeli statements on the Middle East. But they also reflect another reality: the Palestinian movement is a barely yoked anarchy, and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat is subject to a constituency that can usually only agree to disagree. He is merely first among 3 million or so Palestinian equals, scattered across a dozen countries and linked together by a host of overlapping groups. Arafat persuades by force of personality...
...said a complete solution must explain other extinctions occurring simultaneously...
...into history, his facts take on the air of fantasy. And because Trevor-Roper has not offered enough objective evidence about Backhouse's career (he paraphrases the hermit much more often than he actually quotes him), the reader cannot fully believe the author. Thus Trevor-Roper's attempt to explain Backhouse's turn toward Germany in the '40's as an illustration of fin desiecle elitism of the British upper class converting into fascism, is simply a poor fit. It is like trying to find a practical use for a lovely collection of China vases. Perhaps it is because...
Mouse cells divide only about twelve times before dying, chicken cells 25 times, human cells 50 times. That discovery could explain one important characteristic of aging: the inevitable deterioration of the body's immune system. As the years pass, the system's lymphoid cells, no longer able to proliferate in adequate numbers, lose their power to fight off invaders and sometimes even mistake the body's own tissue for foreign bugs. Thus the aged become increasingly vulnerable to diseases-from cold viruses to cancer...
Although Bok declined to say exactly what tack the University would take (I'm just a poor labor lawyer and I really don't think I understand down-zoning legalities enough to explain them to you, he said), he did not exclude the possibility that the University might attempt to take the case to court, if the council should rule in favor of down-zoning in the next few weeks...