Word: explains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orange Riviera's basic appeal is still its natural assets: gorgeous beaches, wooded hills, balmy climate. Real Estate Investor Leo Gugasian hardly needs to explain his fondness for the area: his office is aboard his three- bedroom yacht. Says he: "The salt air and relaxed pace make me think better." Another amenity: a lower rate of serious crime, 37% below Los Angeles' last year...
...Friedan and her allies deride this view, with its strained argument that hernias and pregnancies are somehow similar. Asks Friedan: "Why should the law treat us like male clones?" Similarly, Rosenberg argues that her feminist opponents minimize all the significant male-female differences and cultural influences that might explain the preponderance of men in high- pressure sales jobs, including women's greater distaste for cutthroat competition and their greater attention to the pull of home and family...
...Pentagon's Richard Perle was idling in southern France and the State Department's Paul Nitze was relaxing in Maine when the call came. This week these two polar opposites within the U.S. arms-control apparatus voyage to Moscow as part of a high-level mission to explain President Reagan's latest proposals and create enough concord to entice Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to set a date for a 1986 summit...
...Moscow that the confusion is most telling. When Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh held talks with Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington last month, he proposed a visit to Moscow by senior U.S. officials to explain the Administration's new position. By signaling the Soviet Union's hope that the U.S. would send a full delegation of top policymakers, the Soviets wanted to ensure that whatever was agreed to in Moscow would not be torpedoed back in Washington. In addition to Nitze and Perle, the delegation includes the top U.S. negotiators in Geneva and other experts...
...Under your leadership Hungary has been more successful economically than most other Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) bloc members. How do you explain this performance...