Word: explainations
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...cocoon of "no comment." Once an anonymous deputy counsel in the Reagan White House whose only attempt at flash was his vanity license plate WH LAW, Stephens is now a rising Republican star. After numerous press interviews about Barry's arrest, he took to the Sunday TV circuit to explain why his sting operation was a triumph...
Wilson was a forceful man of letters, not numbers. That may explain why the only Wilsons in David Burnham's blistering critique of the Internal Revenue Service are "James," a Supreme Court Justice who in 1794 rendered the decision that allowed President Washington to put down an armed tax revolt by Appalachian moonshiners; "Frank," an IRS investigator who helped nail Al Capone; and "Bob," a Republican Congressman tied to a tax ruling for ITT during the Nixon Administration. Nonetheless, Edmund remains half-right. Nightmares about the Soviets may have receded, but Americans have yet to lose their fear of filing...
That the IRS is another flawed bureaucracy is no surprise. When accountants find time for lunch they speak of little else. Whiffs of scandal occasionally become gusts, like a former IRS assistant commissioner who could not adequately explain why he charged the agency for airfare to visit his girlfriend. Burnham's audit includes abuses and inefficiencies that date back more than 50 years. Recent probes by the General Accounting Office have discovered broad areas of error and mismanagement. A study covering 1987, notes Burnham, concluded that the IRS failed to keep orderly accounts of its $1 trillion annual collections...
Disenchantment of that kind may explain why N.R.A. membership has been stagnant while gun ownership overall is climbing. "Most of the gun owners of America are riding on the coattails of the N.R.A.," complains President Foss, "content to let us fight the fight to save their guns and be the bad guys in the media...
Experts say this lack of protection may help explain why alcoholic women suffer more heavily from liver damage than do alcoholic men. Women may be more vulnerable to cirrhosis for another reason, says Dr. Jack Mendelson of Harvard Medical School. Studies by a team at Johns Hopkins indicate that women's livers metabolize alcohol faster than men's and thus may be more subject to wear and tear. Mendelson speculates that in female alcoholics a lack of gastric enzyme means that "their livers have to work even harder," accelerating the destruction...