Word: explains
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...painter and illustrator residing in San Francisco, Linenthal says a visit to his mother's hometown of Chapel Hill, N.c., helped explain her passion...
...cites the plethora of research on how to make diversity more effective--as opposed--and says, "That's important work, but it doesn't help me with the legal need or the public need to explain...
...point is that many of us have come to expect people like Fed chief Alan Greenspan, an economist, to have all the answers, when he can't, and never will. Steering the economy via short-term interest rates--the Fed's job--is art, not science. That helps explain how Greenspan could see the stock market as irrationally inflated in December but be less concerned today, even though stocks continue to rise. Like Picasso, he might be into a new phase. But it's a sure bet that the Fed's brush will miss the canvas at some point...
...Budapest? Proponents of expansion will counter yes, Budapest, and cite the greater potential cost of not expanding. They will remember that the U.S. raced home too quickly from Europe after World War I and had to return, at much greater cost, to fight World War II. They will explain how enlargement will anchor the U.S. in Europe, and trumpet that last week's agreement with Moscow was neither a sop nor an insult but an opportunity Russia should seize. And they will be right...
Your story left out psychology in favor of neurophysiology and thereby revealed two more serious American addictions: one, the desire to explain complex human psychology in simplistic, materialistic terms, and the other, the need for a pill to solve every problem. True, the "dopamine cycle" may reveal the physiological underpinnings of human cravings; however this is not really the whole story...