Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...responding in generalities and failing to explain how much in the mainstream being "liberal" actually is, Dukakis keeps the attention focused on Bush's attacks. Voters think Dukakis is trying to run from his past, when in reality Bush should be running from...
...referendum implies that responsibility for peace rests solely in the hands of Israel. It ignores both the history of the situation (the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem by the Jordanians) and the repugnant terrorist tactics employed by the PLO. But history can only do so much; it may explain why Israel justifiably occupied the territories, but it cannot exonerate Israel's present government-sanctioned atrocities...
...explain the whole thing by faculty salaries, deferred maintenance, library periodicals or whatever is used as a cost based excuse," said Hauptman. "Part of it is a pricing decision. The market will bear a higher price...
Which begins to explain why so many people still go to the Olympic Games, relying on the squinting eye when the most expensive television project in history is sending out lucid and poetic montages of body and mood. For TV often catches all the beauty of an event but loses something of the feeling, like a fashion shot that captures a perfect face while leaving one unmoved. Technology can make everything seem too technical: slow motion slows emotions until they seem unreal; instant replays replay the instant again and again until it means less and less, like Warhol's soup...
...collapsed overnight; he stands to lose an estimated $8.2 million. The only light in his personal tunnel, and a lurid one at that, came when Canadian and American football teams announced their interest in his services. The Canadian government promised an inquiry. Nothing less, it seemed, would explain the story of the man who, advertently or not, brought the 1988 Olympics to their highest and lowest moments...