Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tender offers during 1981-85. In every instance, the target company's stock price rose abnormally at least 17 days before the takeover bid was made public. The study reached no firm conclusion about the cause, acknowledging that several factors, among them rumors and speculative press reports, could help explain the phenomenon. Nonetheless, "it is possible, and logical to many, that illegal insider- trading behavior" might be a significant factor, the study said. If so, the crackdown comes none too soon...
...character try to explain themselves through Davenport's musical soliloquies, which come in two flavors: happy, upbeat, major-key ditties, and sad, brooding, minor-key ballads. All the songs have instantly forgettable melodies and lyrics, although some of the ballad melodies are mildly interesting for their complexity. The manic Cider gets the best of these, but his violent rampage during the song makes the audience laugh, destroying the song's effect...
...this point is not merely a case of the galloping semantics, because the way people use this ugly euphemism reveals some ugly attitudes. We read that a shelter has beds for "20 homeless." At least "three homeless" died in Cambridge this winter. Bureaucrats discuss "the homeless problem" and patiently explain why it is somebody else...
...first meeting Baker invited James Miller, director of the Office of Management and Budget, to explain next year's budget "if you have the courage." Miller found it, even quoting an abusive letter from a taxpayer about the Administration's failure to balance the budget. "Did I sign that one, Jim?" asked Baker, drawing nervous laughter...
...funneled $8 million into El Salvador and Costa Rica alone for welfare and church aid. Says Jesuit Father Jon Sobrino, an exponent of liberation theology: "The sects have taken advantage of the weaknesses of the Catholic Church, and the church doesn't know what to do." Asked to explain his impact across Latin America, Swaggart allows, "Problems, persecution, difficulties -- these have always been catalysts that make people seek God. We put hope in people's hearts...