Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms sales that even appeared to be a payoff for the release of hostages was even worse, since seeming to reward terrorists is dangerous indeed. And by failing to foresee that its maneuvers could not be kept secret, and then being so plainly stuck for any effective way to explain those maneuvers publicly, the Administration has called into question its competence as well as its credibility...
Singh quotes an Indian yogi to explain his fear of the nuclear dilemma. "Man is both the mischief maker and the tool for the liberation...
...Chris and John Haney wanted to come up with something too complicated to copy. Says Chris: "We got kind of cheesed off by the Trivial Pursuit knockoffs appearing all over the world and decided to try something with a little inspiration." The result is almost as arcane to explain as Dungeons & Dragons. But it is played with Rubi Cubi dice. However that sounds, the other game crazeman, Erno Rubik, has nothing to do with this...
That is idea number two here, and it helps explain the curious results on the Massachusetts referenda questions: pro-abortion, anti-seat belt law, and anti-write-in voter registration. Twenty years ago, an abortion was a badge of shame. Now most potential Democratic voters have probably had some exposure to the abortion dilemma in their own experience or that of their friends. Abortion as an option has virtually become a shared value and a solid majority of Massachusetts voters do not want to deny that choice to low-income people. But the only ideas that tie those results together...
...have a steady supply of "dirty and deprived young boys to send on suicide missions inside of Israel." This is too simplistic. Most Palestinian refugee camps are outside of Israel's borders and Israel has only offered to house a fraction of them-hence helping to explain the existence of these refugee camps in the first place...