Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Major dailies regularly rail against any attempts by the government to influence the content of their issues. The analogy of a wall that constitutionally stands between church and state has been appropriated by the press to explain what the First Amendment means...
This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer to this perplexing problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation and the overpowering assumption...
...artful equivocation is an almost impossible concept to explain, but it is easy to demonstrate. Let us take our earlier typical examination question, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" The equivocator would answer it in this way: "Some people believe that David Hume was not necessarily a great philosopher because his thought was merely a reflection of conditions around him, colored by his own personality. Others, however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived...
...Pennsylvania, as well as Denver, Boston and Dallas. At two hospitals in Salt Lake City, doctors who normally see only six new cases each year have treated 150 youngsters in the past 24 months. Worse, physicians, who have never fully understood what causes rheumatic fever, have few clues to explain its re-emergence. The culprit could be an unfamiliar strain of bacteria -- or simply relaxed vigilance against a forgotten...
...none of this could adequately explain why the Dow dropped 90 points in just 45 minutes late on Friday. Experts quickly pointed out that the slide was accelerated, as other swings have been during the past two years, by computerized program trading of large blocks of stocks and stock-index futures. The debacle raised anew questions that have been hotly debated since October: Is the new high-tech volatility of stock prices out of control? Are investors vulnerable to a crash at any time if reforms are not undertaken to shore up the market's stability...