Word: explains
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...
...Asked to explain, Clinton launches into a convoluted exposition: "The people who argued that sanctions should be given more time had some good arguments," but he thought and said it would be wrong to vote "to undermine the U.N. resolution" allowing the use of force; he did not trumpet that opinion because he was a Governor, not a member of Congress, and "I didn't want to give any extra grief to my two Senators and my Congressmen, who had a tough vote to cast"; looking back, though, it seems clear that "sanctions would not have worked to get Saddam...
...Harvard seem to realize, however, the primary reasons why poverty occurs. Every so often, Marxist exploitation theory, in diluted or concentrated form, pops up as an explanation. Exploitation occurs, of course. But exploitation theory fails to explain why workers who should have continued to grow poorer with the rise of capitalism have instead continued to rise into the bourgeoisie...
Several complex sexual differences emerged. Men with lower verbal IQs were more likely to have their language skills located toward the back of the brain. In a number of women, regardless of IQ, the naming ability was restricted to the frontal lobe. This disparity could help explain why strokes that affect the rear of the brain seem to be more devastating to men than to women...
...crossed swords, are signing on. "He's truly improved the schools," says Sandra Feldman of the United Federation of Teachers, who points to Arkansas' being the first state to require eighth-graders to pass a standardized exam before going on to high school -- a Clinton reform that helps explain why Arkansas now has the best high school graduation rate in the South. "Not a bad record to throw against the 'education President,' " says Feldman...