Word: explains
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Royal Oak was the fifth multiple post-office murder in as many years. Last month in Paterson, N.J., an ex-postal employee wielding a sword and gun killed his supervisor and three others. Labor analysts struggled last week to explain why postal workers seem more prone to violence than workers in other high- stress fields, like coal mining or air-traffic control. One possible explanation: budget cuts that have reduced the screening and supervision of workers. Another could be the boot-camp conditions that exist for many workers. Delivering the mail is not necessarily a more dangerous profession than most...
Taxpayers, even those who have no insurance, spend an estimated $84 billion a year to subsidize medical care for mostly middle- and upper-class Americans. That is because companies can write off every dollar they spend on health care as a business expense, which may help explain why corporate America did so little to contain the costs until they got out of hand. At the same time, employees who enjoy generous benefits plans pay no taxes on the thousands of dollars in health-care coverage that their companies provide for them...
...RIDDLE of a Harvard-Yale football game is one which the wiseacres of the football coterie have never been able to solve. If they cannot explain results that have been, surely they cannot predict what the results will be. "The odds are on Harvard," some say with a finality that spells a Crimson victory. But who ever heard of odds on Yale, reasonable or unreasonable? "Harvard has a better record," say others, forgetting that games are not won on records. Harvard tried the record policy in 1911, and neither won. "Yale has the old Yale spirit," say still others...
Although I do not agree with them, I would like to explain why I believe moral arguments such as my own are not inherently condescending and why I will continue to act as a Guardian of Peninsula, despite my objections to some of the content of its recent issue...
...believe that homosexual sex is immoral; it would take too long to explain exactly why. Given what I believe, I would be much less honest and much more patronizing if I put homosexuals in a category below everyone else. (I don't.) If I say "I believe I should stop turning papers in late, because by doing so I fail to fulfill my duty to my professors," I must also say I believe it is possible for those who commit other immoral acts to cease...