Word: explains
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...addition, Gorman says the paper tries to explain the relevance of the primary to the campus...
After forty-five minutes without food, we asked to speak to the manager to inform her of our situation. She told us that orders are handled in the order in which the kitchen receives them--although that did not explain why people who ordered after us were settling down to dessert. She did not apologize for the delay, and she delivered her remarks in a way which implied that somehow we were the party at fault...
...does he reach such a conclusion? Director Martin Scorsese does not attempt to explain, but chooses to chronicle, sometimes sympathetically, Travis's descent into violence (or, in his mind, his ascent towards justice). Whatever deeper psychological history lies in Travis's past, we never find out: as the movie's focus brings us closer and closer into his own world, we observe firsthand the wanderings of this tortured soul...
Forbes also finds himself having to explain some gaps between words and deeds. An outsider campaigning against waste, fraud and abuse, Forbes was very forgiving of profligacy during his only government tour, when he served as the unpaid chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting, an independent government agency that oversaw the operations of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty from 1985 to '93. Far from downsizing in his tiny corner of the government, his agency's budget doubled during his tenure. Government audits considered it "improper" that under Forbes' leadership, Eugene Pell, the president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...
...Senate, Mrs. Dole had voluntarily pledged to contribute her income from giving speeches, minus taxes and other expenses, to a Red Cross program for needy youths. In 1991-94, she received $855,500 for speeches, of which she gave $415,727 to the charity. Mrs. Dole is expected to explain that her tax preparers overestimated her taxes on the speeches, which prompted her, in turn, to pay the Red Cross less than she had promised...