Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that her mother, who is out of the country, still does not know her daugther was admitted. "I'll explain to her why I should come here. She doesn't know what Harvard is. I'm not sacrificing myself. It'll do so much for my life in the future," she said...
...institutions that manage IRAs, the challenge last week was to tell customers the difference between the new and old rules -- and to promote new clients. Fidelity Investments, an $80 billion Boston-based mutual-fund group, gave its round-the-clock crew of telephone operators special training in how to explain the new tax code to would-be investors. Citibank (1986 revenues: $144.8 billion) programmed computer terminals in 200 branches to answer questions about IRAs and responded to thousands of queries...
...puts a major, if easy, twist on history in Them: African pilgrims--not Europeans--colonized and settled this country, bringing over European slaves. But instead of letting this not-so-clever premise unfold with some dramatic grace or subtlety, Lee has a narrator explain the wider historical circumstances in deadening detail. Like the rest of the play, this opening lacks the imagination and care that its themes suggest and demand...
...talks with former teachers, colleagues, friends and associates, a portrait of Buettner-Janusch emerges that offers a better understanding of his psyche, although it fails to explain fully the motives behind either his drug manufacturing or his attempts at murder...
...York's current convulsion of corruption; the company's overreaching may have stretched even to the White House. A special prosecutor is investigating the possibility that former Presidential Aide Lyn Nofziger violated Government ethics laws in lobbying for Wedtech, and Attorney General Edwin Meese has been forced to explain his efforts on behalf of the company...