Word: explainers
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...never gone out looking for anything," she says, speaking of the avalanche of adaptations and licensing. "It all comes to me." She volunteers this information to avoid the rap that she's exploiting Seuss and explains that by creating trademarks in various media, she's protecting her husband's creations. Yet some of Geisel's decisions, notably to publish some material that her notoriously perfectionist husband left unpublished, are difficult even for her to explain. "Because everyone out there wanted it," she says, "and because Random House wanted...
Daley called Bush's campaign manager, Don Evans, around 3:15 a.m. to explain the situation. Gore himself followed up on the call about 30 minutes later, telling Bush he was recanting his earlier concession...
...expect that Rubalcava would find it embarrasingly hard to explain how the music industry's death is heralded by "the German giant of the media world" snapping up Napster, and promising to drastically change the way that the file sharing agent works. Rubalcava's ridiculous claim amounts to heralding the death of the home health care industry on the occasion of CVS buying out your local mom-and-pop drug store...
...Both campaigns underestimated how intensely centrist and independent this state has become. And both the campaigns and the media failed to take account of how diverse this state has become - which may help explain why they twice made premature calls on the outcome. Florida voters used to be thought of as a homogenous Democratic white and black vote, and a growing Republican white and Cuban-American vote. But today there are many more independents. And the turnout of black voters was much higher than usual. Also, besides Cuban-Americans there's also a growing bloc of more liberal non-Cuban...
...American Bell Telephone Co., AT&T has held a privileged position in the U.S. economy. With its control of the nation's phone grid, it was largely insulated from competition. That deprived consumers of choice. ("We don't care," Lily Tomlin's Ernestine the Operator used to explain. "We don't have to. We're the phone company.") It also made the company's stock such a sound investment that it became famous as the stock of choice for widows and orphans. Indeed, AT&T has 4.2 million shareholders...