Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McKay explained, however, that unlike other prosecutors, he was required by the 1978 independent-counsel law to explain his findings publicly, including his reasons for not indicting. Most people who break a law, he said, are not prosecuted unless they have a clear criminal intent. McKay said he had found none in the case of the Attorney General, and although he considered the deterrent value of such a highly visible indictment, he had decided not to treat Meese as a special case. Said McKay: "It was a real tough decision -- what message is this going to send...
...inspirational address that seemed beyond Dukakis' rhetoric range. Could the no-nonsense nominee reach within himself to discover the language of leadership? Could he go beyond the pedestrian promises of "good jobs at good wages" to give voice to a new Democratic vision? Having achieved unity, could he now explain what its purpose...
...Congress, senators and representatives debate the fine points of giving aid to the contras (the ones fighting in Nicaragua, that is). Meanwhile, their constituents are hard-pressed even to identify the strife-torn Latin American country on a map, never mind explain what the U.S. government's policy is toward the contras...
...have reached the Applegate of my years. Metaphorically, my bat speed has slowed, my reflexes have begun to dim and more than a stride has been lost going down the line to first. That may help explain why I follow with such fascination and dread the fortunes of the last four big league ballplayers who are older than I am. By daring to stop time for at least one more summer, these final four have become my personal antidotes to middle age, even as I chart their downward slide in the arithmetic of the box scores and the formulaic prose...
...running against Lloyd Bentsen. I'm running against Michael Dukakis, in Texas and everywhere else. How Bentsen and Dukakis get together on these issues where they are diametrically opposed, I don't know. Remember voodoo economics? Every place I went ((in 1980)) people were saying, hey, explain these differences between you and Reagan. Dukakis and Bentsen have a litany of differences. You can just walk through them, whether it's MX missile, support for the contras, support for the Reagan tax cut, gun control in the Southwest -- imagine trying to defend a person who strongly favors federal gun control...