Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bork goes on to explain that laws are as reflection of the morality of the majority of people," Glasser said. "And that deciding those laws is up to the local majority. He believes that if the Bill of Rights does not explicitly define a certain right, that it does not exist...
While DiCara targets generational change andgood times to explain the absence at the polls, healso said there are "no real big issues" in theupcoming November election...
...told him that his book would give Ford the chance to set the record straight about many things. Snapped Ford: "Oh, let the fairy tales continue. Who gives a damn?" His most famous expression, which he borrowed from Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century British Prime Minister: "Never complain. Never explain...
...explain the anger in Hite's survey? And, for that matter, why the more general pattern of anti-male literature at a time when, by many measures, women's lot has radically improved? "What has happened," offers Gloria Steinem, feminist author and a founder of Ms. magazine, "is that expectations have increased as reality has gotten better." The balance of power in relationships used to be about 60-40, she contends. "Now we're trying for 50-50. You have to point out the problems, and that's what some of these books are doing...
...member of the Judiciary Committee. During the hearings, Heflin seemed to be leaning toward Bork. But in the wake of Southern poll results and the anti-Bork stands of some of his colleagues, the Senator appeared to be wavering. Emerging from a meeting with the President, Heflin tried to explain his ambivalence regarding the judge. "He could be an evolving individual with a great intellectual curiosity to experience the unusual, the unknown, the strange," said Heflin. "On the other hand, he may be a reactionary weirdo...