Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...distant figure in polls, has pulled in $2.3 million. By contrast, New York State Congressman Jack Kemp has been trying to shuck a reputation as the tin-cup candidate. Though he has collected $3.3 million, much of it comes from direct- mail solicitation, a high-cost technique that helps explain why he had a mere $150,000 balance after allowing for pending bills at the beginning of this month. His campaign is now emphasizing fund-raising methods providing a higher yield...
...What is in the book, sir?" Liman inquired. North began to explain that it contained notes that he and his attorney, Brendan Sullivan, had prepared. Sullivan abruptly cut his client off: "Don't tell him what it includes." He angrily asserted that Liman had no right to know...
...strike down Louisiana's law requiring the teaching of creationism in public schools ((LAW, June 29)), the Supreme Court is forcing more and more students to be indoctrinated with the belief that the theory of evolution is fact, without the balance of other evidence. Evolution does not yet explain some vitally important questions about living forms, such as the vast chasm between man and other animal life. Religious doctrine should not be included in the public-school curriculum, but neither should a theory be taught as the final statement on origins while that hypothesis is still in the investigative stage...
...common practice for coconut farmers to pay their landlords 70 percent of each harvest, a fact which helps to explain why there are 24,000 NPA in the field. The corrolation between perceived unfair land practices and military insurgency seems to be unmistakable. Given such a background, if the government of the Philippines wants to pursue--and achieve--a Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program worthy of the name. But with a Congress not predisposed to favor such a policy, and a president commited to the policy in theory but incapable of effecting its realization in practice, the prospect of such...
...they are wrong. The 1982 verdict against the Post was overturned, first by the trial judge and again on appeal. Libel law is often what scholars call counterintuitive: its tenets sometimes appear to contradict common sense and even common courtesy. The clash between legal principle and public perception may explain why libel verdicts so persistently get reversed and why legal scholars and a growing number of libel plaintiffs are concluding that going to court usually amounts to a frustrating waste of time...