Word: explains
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Chung, a Cabot House resident, was chosen to write the new book because he had worked on housing issues in the Harvard College Dean's Office since his first year. In previous years he has authored the annual Inside the Houses packet distributed annually to first-year students to explain the lottery system. He also helped to develop the computer system, called the Electronic Lottery Form (ELF), with which first-year students participate in the housing lottery...
...greatest tragedy of the 50-year rule,scholars say, is that some historical details arelost forever. By the time Harvard opens manyimportant papers, the authors are dead and thusunable to explain why they acted as they...
Yesterday's New York Times reported on the results of a government study of the nation's top management. In its report, the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission sought to explain "why about 95 percent of industry's senior executives are starkly and stubbornly white and male." In addition to its commonsensical explanation, the Commission betrayed the existence of a subtle subjugation of women and minorities in the name of progressive hiring policy...
...bottom of that day's column I wrote a note to explain the delay. But in order the fit the column into the space allotted for it, that note...
...projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives, or to explain what taxes they would raise, where they would cut Social Security or why their believe the federal budget should not be balanced...