Word: explains
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...prioritize my global goals. "In a globally competitive market, you need to think broadly about the sheer range of factors that will affect your efficiency," he consulted me. "A key strategic variable in this case could be the exchange rate of the Swedish kroner." I asked him to explain. "This is a different world," he informed me, "a world that requires us management consultants to operate in a genuinely border-less fashion. We must be able to embed these programs into a complex, sustained, multi-year effort to change the way your corporation functions at all managerial levels." I told...
Most first-year dorms do not have computer labs, while all Houses do, which helps explain the low percentage of lab use among first-year students, Steen said...
Never would I deny that I slipped quickly in and out of the minority and thus fraudulently did my show for months, barely able to concentrate on whether Tony Blankley and John Dean really would explain the latest White House strategy after the next commercial. Sorry to say, but the Clintons, Lewinskys, Starrs, Goldbergs et al. left no indelible mark on my psyche. I'm a sportscaster again and damned happy living out there in Los Angeles...
...Howard immediately realized that using that word was a big mistake. The black guy he was talking to was sure he'd used the N word. Howard tried to explain that niggardly is a legitimate word meaning 'miserly' and has no racial connotation, to no avail. In a flash everybody in city hall thought Howard had called the black worker a you-know-what...
...balmy winter's night in Nassau, the Bahamas, Sean ("Puffy") Combs kicks back in an office at Compass Point Studios. Dressed down in a polo shirt, Gucci slippers and a glittering diamond ear stud, he is taking a break from recording his new album, Forever, to explain the world according to Puffy. "Kids don't want to be like Mike anymore," he says, referring to a certain recently retired athlete. "Their heroes are rappers. In five years if Master P and I endorse a presidential candidate, we could turn an election. Hip-hop is that deep...