Word: explained
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...soon found myself stranded on a deserted road with a sunken car, a lump in my throat and a torn tire. My humiliation only deepened when I had to explain the whole incident to the mechanic at the gas station I had so cockily passed only minutes before...
...explain that to people subject to the 33% marginal rate. Capitalizing on the widespread impression that the bubble gives a bonanza to the mansion-and-limousine set, House Democrats led by Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski have proposed to puncture it. They would tax all income over $200,000 at the 33% rate and levy an additional 10% surcharge on income over $1,000,000. Though such hikes would apply to only about 740,000 taxpayers, the congressional joint tax committee reckons the change would bring in $4.2 billion in additional revenue in the current fiscal year...
...know that charismatic leadership counts in the white world, too. How else can we explain Ronald Reagan?" joked Williams...
Albert Einstein was, in the last years of his life, a very frustrated man. Try as he might, the scientific genius simply could not devise a unified, consistent mathematical principle to explain the physical universe. He died in 1955, still working on the same problem...
...Society is supporting them in the adventure, and the least they can do is explain their findings to the society in a language which is comprehensible," newly tenured Harvard physics professor Cumrun Vafa says of his fellow string theorists...