Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...numbers prove that Manhattan's reckless-bike-riding problem is not trivial. Even so, the ire stirred by the bikers is striking. Some argue (not too convincingly) that the antipathy toward messengers, who are mostly black, is racially motivated. But that does not explain the shouts of anger directed at white speed demons by startled white pedestrians...
This context helps explain why the MDC reacted with such seemingly unprovoked ire to the prospect of students celebrating on the banks of the Charles. What is a traditional celebration in the city now seems terrifying. There has been no increase in unruly behavior, no upturn in arrests. There has been a change in perception. That change has come about because of a new conception of what public events should be like. It is a pattern which can be traced across the country...
...public events are going the way of the past, to be replaced by more official, better planned mass events. As they become the dominant from of public expression it is inevitable that the less rigid old-style from of public meeting will be viewed negatively. How else can one explain the MDC's vastly over blown fears of rampant hooliganism at the Head of the Charles...
Another University health official said that academic pressures could also explain the increase in student sickness. Dr. Randolph Catlin, Chief of Mental Health Services at Harvard, noted that several scientific studies have shown that stress can weaken immune responses, which in turn makes people more susceptable to a cold. Still, the doctor said he would not attribute the recent wave of colds on any stress he had noticed at Harvard...
...unloaded on the U.S. in | 1980: "A marielito is driving along on Interstate 95 when he gets a flat tire. He pulls over and starts to change it. A second marielito stops behind him, gets out, and asks: 'What's up? Need any help?' The first guy starts to explain about the tire, but the second guy cuts him off. 'No, you get the tire,' he says; 'I'll get the radio...