Word: explains
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...Many blacks lack an enzyme that breaks down a key carcinogen in tobacco smoke, which may help explain why black men who smoke are 48% more likely to develop lung cancer than white men who smoke...
Once more the reporters filed in one door of the West Wing's Roosevelt Room, and once more presidential advisers arrived by another to explain new details in Hillary Rodham Clinton's commodities trading in the 1970s. Until that moment, the White House had stated that Mrs. Clinton had, in a 10-month period, turned a $1,000 investment into a remarkable $100,000 profit in one trading account and lost $1,009 on a second...
...obvious reasons for this are the ones often invoked to explain the problem of violence in society as a whole -- more guns, and more glory for using them. But experts also blame increasingly harsh work environments and a continual wave of layoffs in the past decade, which have made workers feel dispensable. Says psychologist Bruce Blythe, of Atlanta-based Crisis Management International: "People get awfully upset when there are no raises, then there are layoffs, and the CEO gets a $500,000 bonus. This growing disparity plays into it." Making workers even more desperate, says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist...
...TIME/CNN poll this month reports that 37% of Americans see workplace violence as a growing problem. Some 18% have witnessed assaults at work; another 18% worry about becoming victims themselves. Those fears help explain why two-thirds of emergency-room nurses turn their name tags upside down to deter patients from learning their identities, why some supervisors have taken to wearing bulletproof vests, and why the owner of a McDonald's in central St. Louis forbids his 120 employees to wear red or blue, the colors of the local Crips and Bloods gangs...
Faced with his first public questioning on the matter, President Neil L. Rudenstine yesterday declined to explain the scheduled departure of Provost Jerry R. Green...