Word: explains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EXPLAIN the behavior of the network officials? If television programming were uniformly G-rated, puritanical values might be the best explanation for their behavior. Obviously, though, "Dallas" and "Dynasty," to name but two network creations, are not G-rated. A more plausible explanation is that network officials adhere to a self-serving double standard: they'll put sex on television when it pays, but when it doesn't they turn puritanical...
...explain the course of the Aquino assassination investigation...
...acreage and rent-rolls, make up an endangered species today. Everyone wants to look at them; in 1984 the historic houses of Britain received 45 million visitors. Four out of five were British, which shows a public loyalty to haunts of privilege that Engels might have found hard to explain. The truth is that neither English history nor English culture can be understood without these places; they matter far more as social evidence than most Italian palazzi or French chateaus. The ritual of public visits is not at all new. Some great houses have been open to curious strangers since...
...Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 to block deregulation of the trucking industry. Williams was convicted of attempted bribery in 1982, and is scheduled to start serving a ten-year prison term next month. He acknowledged that he was testifying in hopes of getting the sentence modified. Asked to explain the contradiction be- tween his admission now and his profession of innocence under oath at his trial, Williams had a simple explanation: "I lied...
...Each of us tried to explain what Soviet strengths and weaknesses are, what the president can expect in Geneva," Pipes said...