Word: explains
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Clearly, the Clinton Administration expects a repeat of sorts. It projects $1.2 billion of tax revenue this year and $6.3 billion next year from the sale of stock and other assets triggered by the lower rate. Somebody should explain the new era to Washington: nobody is a net seller of stocks anymore. Since the tax act cleared Congress on July 28, the market has held up fine. We aren't interested in some piddling tax consideration while stocks are rising 30% a year. Some selling may materialize this week as the deadline passes for a line-item veto...
...carefully plodding toward Freddy's crisis. He describes the sheriff as "a noble turtle," and during the shoot he kept a small turtle in his pocket. Mangold wanted the star to lose his chiseled look, so Stallone gained 40 lbs. of flab--a condition he often felt obliged to explain. "He'd say, 'Hey, I'm doing a movie, that's why I'm heavy,'" Liotta recalls. "He'd say this to a perfect stranger." Sly's first words to Annabella Sciorra, the younger, more alluring Talia Shire type who plays his lost love, were, "Hi, I'm not usually...
...control, except for the author's, who narrates this trajectory of calamities with noteworthy energy and skill. And Johnson is obviously aiming for something more here than standard-issue pulp-fiction chills. In their reflective moments his whacked-out villains have a tendency to quote Nietzsche, as if to explain themselves to themselves and the reader. But Johnson does not make clear where, among so many burned-out characters, the reader's rooting interests should lie. Nelson seems a poor choice, even though he gets to tell major swatches of his story and is given some funny lines. Here...
...grain in the silo goes nowhere. The bishop, whose name is Kevin Nield, is trying to explain why. "It's a reserve," he is saying. "In case there is a time of need...
...whatsoever: the term priest applies to all males over age 12 in good standing in the church, and "bishops," while supervising congregations, are part-time lay leaders.) Religious observers point out that this creates a vacuum of theological talent in a church with a lot of unusual theology to explain. But the benefit, notes Stark, is that "people at the top of the Mormon church have immense experience in the world. These guys have been around the track. Why do they choose to invest directly? Because they are not helpless. They are a bunch of hard-nosed businessmen." Rodney Brady...