Word: explainers
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Reagan could only wince and explain that his was a "national candidacy" as he watched the returns roll in from the farm precincts of Iowa. "I'm in a different state every day--I've got a national constituency, and I've got to work to maintain that. George Bush had to stake his all on the early win," he said...
...Voters explain why they abandoned Kennedy for Carter...
...condemning the Afghanistan invasion. True, France has not followed the U.S. lead in imposing economic sanctions-though it pledged, along with other Community members, not to take advantage of opportunities created by the American grain embargo-nor has it backed the boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics. The French explain that this is not because they disagree with the Carter Administration's actions but rather because European nations should use tactics better suited to them. "The West's diversity is its strength," says one Paris diplomat...
Pravda's cautionary tale, headlined "The Factory That Wasn't," was one of the newspaper's occasional exposés of individual wrongdoing designed to explain why Soviet central planners are unable to meet their goals. In the case of the factory that wasn't, Russians were inevitably reminded of the ruse employed by the 18th century courtier Grigori Potemkin, who erected false fronts on poverty-stricken villages in order to persuade Empress Catherine the Great that her realm was truly prosperous...
...pornography-"It didn't tell much about what happened," Kaplan says-and there are questions about why there was no report on a $700 million settlement that American Oil Co. made with the Government to satisfy price-gouging charges. The answer, that it was too complicated to explain in a brief time slot, satisfies no one. Yet Kaplan is happy with what he and his colleagues have done. "I'm pretty pleased," he says. And 17.6 million people who watched with him probably agreed...