Word: explained
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...what do you think about Yale Medical School?" demanded one interviewer. A reasonable question, except that he was not from Yale Medical School. For 30 harrowing minutes, I tried to explain my ignorance of my interviewer's beloved alma mater. Finally, he asked me if I had any questions. I asked him what he thought about the medical campus I was visiting...
...program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from now." Or why it is necessary to exaggerate the threat in the first place...
...Hispanics," they explain, can be people who have lived in the United States all their lives. Or they can be recent arrivals from Nicaragua. Their ancestors may have hailed from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain or any one of a number of places around the globe...
...writing to explain my position regarding the recent vote to permit New England Telephone (NET) to charge residential customers 35 cents for dialing 411 (directory assistance) in excess of 10 per month...
...should always take a lesson when you go out for the first time. Even friends who are great skiers cannot always explain the mechanics like an instructor, who does it hundreds of times every season. To illustrate the importance of developing a sensitivity to the snow, an experiment was once carried out in which several expert skiers had their feet injected with novocaine in a variety of doses. The more novocaine they received, the less they were able to maintain control over their skis...