For Mr. Downs, the small-business owner in Pennsylvania, such half explanations were of little consolation.
"It's this new Japanese thing" is the agent's half-explanation, before scarpering.
By Thursday, LeanIn.org's president, Rachel Thomas, weighed in, offering half-apology and half-explanation: We recognize there is an ongoing public debate on the appropriate use of unpaid interns.
Mixed in with all these half-explanations is any of one of a host of tribal statements of the day, relevant only to the harpsichordist, which enforce a loose party line of sorts.
If you go into your job expecting that you might get conflicting, half-explanations you won't take it personally and, importantly, you won't get flustered when you're standing in the supply closet and you can't find the paper because the paper has it's own closet.
Making things much worse, though, was her campaign's handling of the episode — the delays, the half-explanations, the grudging trickle of information — which played to some deep concerns going back to Clinton's White House days and controversies over openness and candor.
This is not wrong, but is only half an explanation.
The ability of United States — because of the U.S. dollar's position as the main reserve currency — to borrow so easily is only half an explanation.
But that's only half the explanation.
But there is a glass-half-empty explanation too.
What accounts for the difference?There are two and a half "logical" explanations.
