Word: explains
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...have hours to spend lounging around in the tub." Newhouse is equally willing to have competing titles for men. After paying a reported $2 million for Details, a modish magazine centered on Manhattan's avant-garde downtown club life, he visited the magazine's offices in February to explain that he was repositioning it as a fashion-oriented monthly for younger males, possibly a good description of GQ, which Conde Nast already publishes...
...Nicaragua. Pavlov said he saw "no lack of desire on the part of the F.M.L.N. to negotiate" an end to its war with the Cristiani government. He asked that the U.S. "pressure" Cristiani to "speak seriously" with the guerrillas. Pavlov even adopted Reagan's justification for the contras to explain Cuba's aid to the F.M.L.N. If the F.M.L.N. disarmed before a political settlement was reached, he argued, its ability to press the Salvadoran government to reform would be lost. It was Aronson's turn to reassure Pavlov. If the arms flow to the F.M.L.N. was reduced, he said, Washington...
...hold the Soviets accountable for the continued flow, even if they were not directly responsible. "You cannot escape it," Aronson said. "No one will ever believe that you cannot control your allies when your assistance sustains their very existence." Moscow's allies understood the Soviet position, Pavlov replied. "We explain the changes in the world every time we meet with the Cubans. But Castro is not someone with whom one uses the word must if one is serious about changing his behavior. Fidel doesn't take orders from anyone." Almost as an aside, Pavlov wondered if it "had ever occurred...
Carnes admits that scientists are a long way from fully understanding the causes of compulsive sexual behavior. He cannot yet explain why some forms of treatment are successful. "What I do know," says Carnes, "is that people do get better...
What the supporters cannot explain is how Venice could withstand an invasion of up to 500,000 visitors a day -- five times the city's capacity, according to the opponents' estimates. Even without the Expo, Italian tourism will reach record levels by the turn of the century: 2000 is a Holy Year, when tourists will flock to Rome, while Milan may be serving as host for the Summer Olympics. To spread out the traffic, Expo organizers propose holding their fair from January to April -- just when the canals most frequently overflow their banks. Argues Cesare De Michelis: "The idea...