Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tempted to say silence from both sides. But, you know, so much of that depends upon personal relationships. I certainly think they owe each other a willingness to communicate and explain what they're doing on both sides. I do think that, under our system, in monetary policy the Federal Reserve has to go off and in the end make its own decisions...
Were a magazine to dissolve and reform each semester under a new name it would be a very lucrative, if somewhat schizophrenic magazine. I do not know how to begin to explain the absurdity of this situation. Projects in the arts should not be forced into becoming capitalistic, commercial ventures. A literary magazine should not have to look like the Square Deal...
Reagan had an ability to console the inconsolable. Witness his speech after the Challenger explosion. He could also explain away the inexplicable. Remember Bitburg? The Iran-Contra scam...
...American Red Cross and the American Cancer Society serve vast needs and do great good, they are to charity what GM is to industry. Charity too needs its entrepreneurs, dreaming on a different scale, and perhaps genius ripens most fruitfully in a free and private space. That may explain why 105,000 new service organizations were born between 1982 and 1987. "Volunteers are now expected to solve problems," says Jerri Spoehel of the Volunteer Center of San Fernando Valley, Calif., "not just stuff envelopes...
...years at Harvard and M.I.T., Shapiro has been struck by the difficulty even well-educated adults have with basic scientific concepts. Last year he and some colleagues produced a half-hour film titled A Private Universe in which half a dozen Harvard seniors were asked on graduation day to explain why there are seasons. All blithely described how the earth is closer to the sun in summer and farther away in winter. Wrong. The seasons result from the tilt of the earth's axis relative to its orbit. When the sun is highest in the sky, we have summer...