Word: explains
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...natural in a democracy for people to worry most about the influence they cannot see -- which helps explain the uproar when their worst suspicions are confirmed by what they do see. Some commentators went off like a cheap car alarm when Rosalynn Carter's fingers grazed the doorknob of the Cabinet room. Columnists conjured up Lady Macbeth when Nancy Reagan introduced policy-by- horoscope, or when she nudged her husband at a press conference on the hostages and urgently whispered, "Tell them you're doing the best...
Clearly it's good to have an assistant wholoves winning and gets along with the players. Butmost importantly, Pawloski coaches as if he were aplayer--dishing out constructive criticism anddemanding hard work. His attitude goes a long wayto explain the varsity's success last year...
...apart. I accept that tearing the picture can be viewed as a negative attitude, but one has to do what one can do. If I hadn't torn the picture, we wouldn't be having this conversation. Now people will listen to what I'm saying and let me explain what I'm talking about...
...stand-alone company within GM has created a snooty attitude on the part of its dealers toward the turmoil in Detroit. "Most of our customers don't know who makes the car," says a Los Angeles Saturn dealer. "So when people come into the showroom and we explain that Saturn is a separate corporation, they think of it as Saturn first and GM second...
When Ross Perot challenged George Bush and Bill Clinton in the final debate to explain why they "have people representing foreign countries working on their campaigns," his rivals bobbed and weaved. Clinton deflected Perot's dare by promising, if elected, to toughen laws governing foreign lobbyists. Bush had a see-no-evil response. "I don't think there's anything wrong," Bush said, "with an honest person who happens to represent an interest of another country from making his case. That's the American...