Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explain how we decide what to cover. As a general rule, order our coverage in a hierarchy roughly paralleling the athletic department's own, combined with our feeling about which sports are more popular on campus and the relative importance of various events...
...considering the competition that Harvard has already played this year, this explanation does not explain the whole story...
...Teddy shouts "Charge!" and dashes off to consult his cabinet on the latest pressing issue of national security, Dr. Harper asks the beaming Abby and Martha if they have ever tried to convince their nephew that he wasn't actually Teddy Roosevelt. The aunts explain that they'd rather he be Roosevelt than nobody, and the audience laughs with this sudden introduction to the kooky Brewster family...
...would be amazed how many people can't explain to a sixth grader why they own their stock," Lynch said. "These people lose money. They don't even know what the hell they owned...
Professors rarely explain the connections between lectures and reading assignments. Are lectures simply expositions of the reading, or do they represent a professor's particular spin on the texts? Are assignments designed to integrate what we've learned or simply to indulge our individual research interests? Are closed-book midterms and finals truly the best gauge of our knowledge? Many Core and departmental course requirements provide little evidence that anyone in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences pays attention to what people in the School of Education have been telling us for years...