Word: explains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fend off corporate raiders who were swarming around the company, had stirred widespread unhappiness with Wyman and helped to bring Tisch to power in the first place. But the chops did not stop with Wyman's departure. Far from it. It was easy enough to explain a wave of 700 firings that had begun in July as the result of an austerity plan approved before the outgoing chairman's downfall. But then in October came 400 more, decreed by Tisch, followed by an additional 100 in November. The firings have hit every level, but the highest-ranking casualties...
...told reporters he couldn't "explain the gratitude in my heart at seeing all of you here and being able to step on American soil again. My great gratitude and appreciation I have to send to many people who have morally helped my family, my wife Sally, my inlaws and myself with cards and letters and phone calls...
Shultz summoned the ambassador home to explain why Kelly had not informed the State Department about his dealings with Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter, who was later ousted as the president's national security adviser, and Lt. Col. Oliver North, a Poindexter deputy who also was forced to resign last month when the secret arms deals were disclosed...
Only after I got home did someone explain why they were all so concerned about me. He guessed that they thought that I had been severely traumatized by my weekend of infamy and were trying to reassure...
...between getting lousy grades in class and writing this column, the Happy Hacker remains glued to his word-processor trying to figure out how to get a word-processor to write his papers for him, or short of that, how it can at least explain to the professor the reason for turning in an assigned paper after the deadline. When he figures it out, you can hear it here first...