Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Time's management was called upon to explain its strategy last Friday, when more than 1,000 shareholders jammed into the grand ballroom of Manhattan's New York Hilton & Towers for the company's annual meeting. The stockholders, many of them Time employees, were less confrontational in their questioning than had been expected and indeed several times warmly applauded the Time management. Even so, several criticized the Time-Warner deal because shareholders were not asked to approve...
...guess I can only explain the impact thatstrange year had on me this way: Matt wastypically absorbed by the idea of these first-yearpieces, since he had never been able to writeabout his first-year experience at Harvard. Onewarm night, as we walked along the Charles, Mattturned to me and said, "This is going to be yourfirst-year piece...
...subtitle of your book is A Sort of History of the United States, but some people will find it sort of upsetting. You say that the First Amendment guarantees the right of religious groups, "no matter how small or unpopular, to hassle you in airports." You explain that radio works "by means of long invisible pieces of electricity (called 'static') shooting through the air until they strike your speaker and break into individual units of sound ('notes') small enough to fit inside your ear." Why are you trashing history and science...
...honest. Nothing I've ever written fits the definition "distinguished commentary." But I can explain. The Pulitzer is judged by people who are undergoing two extremely stressful things at the same time. One, they're in New York City; and two, they're reading Pulitzer Prize entries, which are often written for the purpose of winning Pulitzer Prizes. Whole forests could be saved if we didn't actually put these in the newspaper and just sent them straight to the Pulitzer jurists instead. So these people have to read hundreds of heavy, huge entries, every one of them earthshakingly important...
...Secretary, Jack Kemp, promises to clean up the mess that Pierce and his cohort left behind. Kemp has canceled all 1989 Moderate Rehabilitation programs, called for an audit of 300 housing projects that have already received rent subsidies and demanded that 53 HUD field officers explain what happened to the funds that appear to be missing. "There's much work to do here, and I enjoy it," says Kemp. "President Bush has charged me with the responsibility to reform the agency from stem to stern, and that's what I intend to do." He has his task...