Word: explaining
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sexual relations" as defined by Paula Jones' lawyers was "legally accurate." That was probably the hardest part for Lewinsky, for it implied that all the affection was one way and not mutual. "That is contrary to Monica's testimony," said a lawyer familiar with her case. Which may help explain why Monica Lewinsky was scheduled to be back before the grand jury. And why she is likely to be facing a lot of Congressmen this fall...
...abstract situation," says John H. Gagnon, a sociologist who was a co-author of the Chicago study. "It's morally wrong, but if I know someone who did it, I know maybe they had a bad marriage; maybe it was an accident. Maybe there's a compelling narrative to explain why they strayed." In other words, familiarity breeds moral relativism. While President Clinton has yet to offer a compelling narrative of his own, this phenomenon may help explain the consistent findings in polls that while Americans don't like the idea of the President's cheating on his wife, they...
...history spit on you and smile. Your attempts to hide behind the powers of your office have diminished them as a result. Your hands are tied overseas; at home your agenda is dead. Your only daughter is back from college, and whatever you decide to say, you have to explain to her first. Your wife looks the way she did the day her father died. Psychiatrists report of teenagers who act up and behave badly who are using, as their last line of defense, "Well, hey, Clinton got away with...
...that may explain the success of Judy Sheindlin, a former New York City family-court judge and the resident scourge on Judge Judy, which as of this month is the eighth most popular show in syndication. The appeal of TV-judge shows is that they are little more than highly structured versions of Jerry Springer, in which the feuding idiots are silenced by a decisive moral authority instead of a bald bouncer. Judge Judy developed this formula in September 1996, and was followed a season later by a revival of the '80s show The People's Court, currently presided over...
...inflation and interest rates help explain these valuations. But even the trusty "rule of 20," which takes inflation into account, has been trashed. The rule holds that the market P/E plus the rate of inflation should total about 20, as it has for most of the past 40 years. With inflation running at 1.7%, today's reading is 23, and when calculated using reported rather than expected earnings, it jumps to 29--well above the 26 reached on that basis just before the 1987 crash, notes analyst Richard Bernstein at Merrill Lynch...