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Here Metabolife interjects the following explanatory note: "Nine years ago, Michael Ellis received five years probation for the use of a telephone to facilitate a drug trafficking offense committed in 1989 ."
The 1935 edition of the four-volume Tolkovyi Slovar' Russkogo Yazyka (`Explanatory Dictionary of the Russian Language') defines glasnost' as: “Accessibility to public discussion and evaluation; publicity.”
When I told a friend of my problems with the budget as an explanatory document, he replied, "But you're the only person who reads it."
I don't think that conceptual scheme has a whole lot of explanatory or predictive value--the way Marx's would if only it were true--but at least it has helped us to see the post-industrial society steadily and whole, and as something qualitatively different from the industrial society that it superseded.
(If you're hungry for more, the show's Web site adds explanatory diagrams.)