Word: explaining
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These illustrious titles can also be a bit problematic; I remember earlier this year trying to explain to an interviewer not familiar with the Harvard system what was meant by "Editor, Harvard Crimson...
...have an important role in the operation, Mr. President, don't expect North to keep quiet if he is convicted, and don't expect public opinion to be merciful if you yourself do not explain your involvement...
...that meeting, Healy agreed to look intosetting up racial sensitivity training workshopsand revising police regulations to requireofficers to explain their actions to suspects,according to Cochrane and Williams...
Such sentiments help explain why the high-draw cities in the U.S. are not the metropolises of New York and Los Angeles but the smaller and more habitable climes of Albuquerque, Fort Worth, Providence and Charlotte, N.C. To many working families, a higher quality of life, and more of it, compensate nicely for the absence of the Metropolitan Opera or the Hollywood Bowl. When Equitable Life Assurance Society summoned Jim Crawford, 43, back to Manhattan from its Des Moines office, he would not relinquish his Iowa life-style. "We based that decision on the quality of the environment," he says...
...Cabinet last week, but the move only underscored his political weakness. Among those ousted was disruptive Defense Minister Rupert Scholz. Recent controversies concerning West German involvement in Libya's suspected chemical-weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything is so comfortable, they can try something different...