Word: explaining
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...petting zoo, and I refuse to be one for the white students to find out how it feels to run their fingers through a head of black hair. I can even understand that other people are not so offended by the act, but I will explain why things are different in my case...
...President who once said he didn't want to spend much time on foreign affairs can be grateful for a difficult-to-explain policy toward Iraq because it distracts him from the impossible-to-explain stories of late-night visits, gifts sent and retrieved and job offers from heaven. But his efforts to manage the crisis are complicated by the facts that he is isolated within the White House as never before, his staff is distracted, his Democratic allies are apprehensive, and his poll numbers are floating like clouds, so high and so very soft...
...told the Tribune. "I don't think so, because I think we would have offered that up already...I think it's going to end up being a very complicated story, as most human relationships are. And I don't think it's going to be entirely easy to explain maybe...
What makes it especially hard to explain is the fact that Clinton's advisers are building scenarios based on layers upon layers of what-ifs, most of which are not anywhere near their control. "Everything in God's green earth is being discussed," says one. The biggest what-if is Lewinsky's testimony. The best case that now seems possible, an adviser says, is that she testifies to "something this side of sex," an intense emotional relationship that raises eyebrows outside and that gave rise to fantasies on her part, but that leaves Clinton with relatively little explaining...
...couple of weeks before a complicated and dangerous foreign adventure was likely to begin. Clinton does it this way all the time, partly because he flutters and floats about his own course of action. He and his advisers assume the country has a short attention span and they can explain a clear choice and a timetable only when their own resolve becomes clear...