Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mano. But however Frank might fare against Biden braino-a-braino, he'd be hard pressed to lose a veracity contest to the senator. All of Biden's claims were false. "I exaggerate when I'm angry," he said by way of explanation. Similarly, his aides tried to explain away his appropriation of Kinnock's speech and ancestry by saying that he had gone on "automatic pilot...
...legislative liaison, and told not to talk to the press. He nodded, but within hours was giving thoughtful interviews about his life and legal beliefs. He also disregarded advice not to talk to Senators about his legal philosophy. His strategy worked well, both to humanize his image and to explain his complex ideas. Even though he has successfully assured the Senate on two previous occasions that some of his forceful and abrasive writings were merely the deliberately provocative views of an inquiring intellectual, he knows that this time the stakes are higher. In considering whether he should become the nation...
...idol, Ronald Reagan. That is what Chief of Staff Howard Baker thought when a handful of right-wingers who had been invited to the White House began leveling accusations that the Administration was selling out the contras in Nicaragua. Baker had arranged for the President to drop by and explain in person that his tentative backing for a Central American peace plan implied no lessening of U.S. support for the Nicaraguan rebels. But this time his remarks were greeted only with cold silence; visibly irritated, Reagan shrugged and walked away. Said Burton Pines, vice president of the Heritage Foundation...
...President" and "someone you can trust." Like the other Democrats, Jackson comes up with relatively low marks in categories such as "experience," does well in others ("a strong and decisive leader"), and ends up as a mediocre part of the pack under several headings. These symptoms of ambivalence explain why one-third of possible Democratic voters say they would like to see another candidate in the race. When this group is asked who that candidate should be, 25% say Senator Edward Kennedy, another 25% say Hart and 19% mention New York Governor Mario Cuomo...
Such an oversight is almost unthinkable: a takeoff without extending the flaps, said Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Spokesman John Leyden, is like driving off in a car without closing the door -- and far more dangerous. Yet such a lapse, notes University of Michigan Aeronautic Engineer C. William Kauffman, "would explain some of the things that were observed -- the aircraft using a lot of runway, not climbing very high, stalling...