Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surveys of public attitudes toward physicians, it finds a troubling loss of faith. Even people who esteem their own physicians often deride the profession as a whole. In 1987, 37% of those polled did not believe doctors take a genuine interest in their patients. Only 45% believed doctors "usually explain things well to their patients...
...radio transmission by Hazelwood, the Coast Guard did not communicate with the Valdez until after the grounding, nearly an hour later. Nor did it track the tanker by radar. The Coast Guard has cited possible weather conditions, poor equipment and the change-of-shift preoccupations of a watchman to explain why the ship was not picked up on radar. More important, although seamen insist they rely heavily on Coast Guard monitoring in the entire sound, Coast Guard officials maintain they are not technically required to track ships as far as Bligh Reef...
...member Sandinista People's Army. As the name implies, its job is to defend the party, not the nation. The army is a well-oiled machine, its comandantes agile tacticians at outmaneuvering the counterrevolutionaries. Soldiers attend mandatory political-education classes, and most can recite, if not explain, the party line...
...else could you explain why so few Blacks hold positions of authority in sports, both on and off the field? Why are there so few Black quarterbacks and catchers? Why has there never been a Black head coach in the NFL? And why, until the recent purchase of the Denver Nuggets, had there never been a Black-owned major league franchise in any sport, despite the numbers of wealthy Blacks seeking to buy a team...
...geologists are hyperbolic"; he certainly is. At one point he suggests putting a small bottle of oil to the ear, the better to hear the ancient waters. At another he intones, "You can't find oil if you are not honest; I'm not sure I know how to explain this." The rueful part, after the semicolon, redeems the rest. He natters on about his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hughes, whose mild, pleasant drawings accompany the text. Is he happy with her? Without her? Will they marry? One wonders whether, as a suitor, he will ever top an early gambit, when...