However, a number of studies suggest that this is not the whole explanation.

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Educators sometimes argue that school productivity has fallen because of the social problems dumped on them, but this is an explanation, not an excuse: In practice, they never resist more recruits.

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This is not, Mr Pemble assures us, the whole explanation, but one thing is clear.

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Because of the long follow-up period of the study, in which participants who were dementia-free developed the condition many years later, this is a less likely explanation, but was not ruled out in the research, Saczynski said.

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We are seeing this: so what, if any, is the alternative explanation for this change in relative prices if real wages are not rising?

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However, the prosecution says it is not prepared to accept the same explanation this time.

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None of this makes sense and the only explanation is that Google is not a good, emancipated democrat, but has a distinct Republican streak to it!

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"One possible explanation for this is that some older people did not mount an effective immune response to the H3N2 component of this season's vaccine, " the report said.

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The most plausible explanation for this paradox, argues Tom Mann of the Brookings Institution, is that Americans are looking not only for diplomatic support, but also for broader reassurance that they are doing the right thing.

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