Word: explains
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Dole insists he has undergone a personal transformation as well, a softening of his notorious prickliness. Still uncomfortable discussing his feelings, he struggles to explain: "I'm more, I don't know what the word is, relaxed, or serene, at peace, or whatever the word is. I don't go to bed every night and think, 'I've got to get this done. I've got to be successful.' " He talks more openly about the pain and the disability that linger from his war injury, how he cannot look at himself in the mirror in the morning until after...
...fashioned pyramid of donors in which each operative identifies 10 to 20 people who can each give $1,000, the maximum allowed by law. Each donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman...
...cheesy level of political debate today has favored the party on the attack, it being easier to plant fear and confusion than to explain why blah blah blah really means blah blah, as shown in diagram 4A (see footnote on page 495), which helped elect a lot of Republicans running against Big Gummint. On Election Night, I almost swallowed my gum when Senator Dole said, in an interview, "There are some things that government does well," something that no Republican has uttered in years. A man who has spent 34 years in the Federal Government must have been surprised...
Second, the results of the survey have been used to explain the gap in math and science scores between girls and boys. The AAUW linked the two to draw the conclusion that an educational system more focused on the needs of girls would be more successful...
...much expertise as Castro had in donut-related issues, he could offer no information regrading the Dunkin' Donuts monopoly/conspiracy theory. Perhaps I should explain...