Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's ghosts are something of a secret among the powers that be, apparently, which should come as no surprise. Administrators don't want to go on record talking about things science can't explain. Like the tenure process, and the housing crunch, and the food. Of course, they stand to lose a great deal if they appear ridiculous in print...
Harvard will go to federal court today to explain the "inadvertent" destruction of tenure deliberation records that a U.S. District Court judge ordered it to provide in a sex discrimination suit against the University...
...leading spokesmen of the "public-choice" school, which applies the discipline of economics to the study of political decision making. Governments reflect the actions and choices of politicians, Buchanan argues, just as markets operate through the decisions of consumers who buy and sell goods. His theories help to explain the growth of budget deficits. Members of Congress are primarily motivated by a desire to get re-elected, Buchanan assumes. "Their natural proclivity is to spend more and not tax," he says. The result: a "regime of permanent budget deficits." The cure, Buchanan contends, is to change the rules...
...Asked to explain why Lara's visa was revoked, Immigration and Naturalization Service Spokesman Charles Troy said the agency had reason to believe she had entered the country to take part in subversion. But he refused to offer further details, saying only that the charge was based on "classified information" from other Government agencies...
...YORKERS, too, feel compelled to explain the inexplicable, even if they don't espouse so allencompassing a theology. Politicians are doing it, the press is doing it, and, unfortunately, the parents of Ms. Steel's friends are probably doing it. After all, they will sleep better at night if they believe that they have some control over their children's fate, that they can protect their loved ones from every imaginable evil if they convince them not to use fake i.d.'s, not to take drugs, not to have...