Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...watches. This motley collection of businesses last year earned $589 million on sales of $6.7 billion. In addition to its stake in Loews, the Tisch family owns real estate scattered across the country and a vast stock and bond portfolio. Though the domain sometimes seems too enormous to comprehend, much less oversee, Tisch is rarely fazed by his responsibilities. He told TIME last week, "I find business very relaxing. I look forward every day to going to the office...
Given the remorseless nature of her writing, Rendell, 56, is surprisingly coy about her attempts to comprehend the workings of the criminal mind. "I do research," she says in crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who has emigrated to Denver, "was a children's officer and has been rather a help with psychopaths and with case histories, especially of children in care." She disclaims firsthand acquaintance with crimes and sounds positively appalled when discussing readers who write in with suggestions they have concocted: "I am always...
...Street shares that optimism. When rumors of the sale started flying on Wednesday, ITT stock jumped $4, to $49.37. It closed the week at $54. Still, many industry watchers are taken aback. Quipped Carol Neves, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, to the New York Times: "It's difficult to comprehend an ITT without a telecommunications operation. I asked them what the T's would stand for in their name, and they said, 'toil and trouble...
...perceives as a threat to its citizens, such as Libya for supporting terrorism and several Southeast Asian nations, including Hong Kong, for the U.S. trade deficit. But foreign observers are confused by America's insistence on seeing these issues in terms of black-and-white. Are Americans unable to comprehend the complexity of issues, they asked. Or can they only register anecdotes, just the way David Stockman describes President Reagan's power of understanding...
...believed would be the hour of their death, Nelson makes their antagonism all the sadder. As they quake, bound and blindfolded in terror, "hugging" by pressing their backs together, he shows how simple and intense their devotion was when they had only each other and not the world to comprehend...