Word: interpretation
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...Cohn adds "I think it would be very limiting to interpret those murals as Rothko's depiction of the Passion. I never got the sense that that was his limit on their significance and I never got the sense that he wanted to put into words their explicit significance." After all, Rothko himself later pointed out that the murals' crimson backgrounds refer to the "spirit of Harvard," and the subject matter of the murals is a series of H's, contracting and expanding in rhythmic progression...
Egyptians are particularly incensed that just three words, in circumstances difficult to interpret, could point to suicide. The words may have been totally misunderstood. El-Batouti was just as likely to be expressing concern at some emergency when he spoke. The phrase was no solemn invocation of death but an everyday expression among Egyptians, murmured at the start of many a mundane task. Suicide defies the holiest precepts of Islam, and for Egyptians it brings unthinkable shame to family and nation. "You can't jump to conclusions from someone quoting the Koran and say this was more than an accident...
Gittins spotted Anubis Solutions, an Alameda company that helps businesses manage and interpret electronic data on their customers. It had tripled revenues in each year of its 3 1/2 years of existence. "But there were some huge opportunities" to expand even more rapidly, says co-founder Adeeb Shana'a, "and if we didn't move fast enough, we would lose the potential." Shana'a and co-founder Amit Desai had been determined to shun outside investment, but now they were ready to consider it, and they put out feelers to a venture-capital firm. The financiers offered an introduction...
...interpret it very narrowly. Our policy is one day a week. [It} is based on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' 20 percent policy, but we define that as a rigid one eight-hour day a week," Schauer says...
Such unions are awkward, certainly, but most survive through the messy art of compromise. The first line of negotiation is the local bishop, who has the power to interpret the directives. For example, bishops disagree about whether Ovral, an emergency contraceptive drug for rape victims, induces abortion. At St. Louise, staff members will not give Ovral directly to rape victims, but they will allow a separate emergency-response unit to administer the drug on the premises. A similar kind of wiggle room is offered under mergers done according to the "community model." In that case, a Catholic hospital will join...