Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study of 50 American cities, William Tucker found that, of all factors commonly suggested to explain homelessness, the existence of rent control has the single strongest correlation. Rent control, he found, is typically associated with a 250 percent increase in homelessness...
...deperately rummaged through my knapsack--as the other attendees of the Mather Hebrew Table looked on--but to no avail. I then faced a terrible dilemma--to indulge in the ice cream sundae and later suffer the consequences or to stoically resist the urge and explain to the Hebrew table (in Hebrew!) why I would let an absolutely enticing ice cream sundae go to waste. I chose the former but never again...
...advertisements. It seems I can use the discount at any of the store's locations--all 12 branches. What would they say back home if they knew I had patronized a branch for a haircut? Branches are for trees and for banks, they're likely to explain...
...partial remedy is being tried in New York City. The city's new adoption- counseling unit works with drug-addicted birth mothers at the hospital to explain the possibility of giving up parental rights and freeing their children for quick adoption. Earlier this year the city instituted a plan encouraging would-be adoptive parents to serve as foster parents for children who haven't yet been freed for adoption, and then adopt them as soon as legally possible. "Parents don't have to go to Korea or South America if they ! want to adopt an infant," says adoption-services director...
...took a risky struggle to transfer the show. Redgrave is a fervid member of a radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much of her income into its causes and four times stood as a candidate for Parliament representing the Workers' Revolutionary Party. That commitment helps explain why she has endured for more than a decade an unannounced but unmistakable boycott by much of the American entertainment business...