Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lezama maintains that Smith should not be judged on the basis of her social role as mother, and that the complexities of contemporary life for women somehow explain "why she was desperately looking for a way out." Lezama makes the inductive error of tracing one tragic act to a larger political condition...
...simple Game to explain. Yale's offense was opportunistic when it counted, and Harvard's offense could not rise to the challenge...
Zhirinovsky: No, this is possible. I'm just trying to explain certain attitudes in Russian society. If you look at the main theaters in Moscow, a majority of the directors are people of Jewish origin...
...done it. What person watching -- and parents from the President on down couldn't turn their eyes away -- had not felt the sleep-depriving, soul-splitting pressures of parenting and worried about their own capacity for violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about Stranger Danger ended it having to explain something far scarier...
Retailers too are hunting for skilled sales personnel to explain sophisticated products. Home Depot is increasingly turning to design-school graduates to work in its new line of Expo stores, which will cater to customers building new houses. The company has already hired armies of carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen to take the angst out of shopping as the do-it-yourself chain has expanded to more than 300 outlets. Home Depot went farther afield to hire Larry Wells, 43, who lost his $60,000-a-year job as an Eastern Airlines pilot when that carrier went out of business...