Word: comprehended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to comprehend leaving [my friends]basically forever in two weeks after four yearstogether, and so I want to maximize my time withthem," Marcus says...
...Times). What's in a name these reductivists or simplifiers ask, other than confusion and "time-wasting," when Radcliffe does not hire its own faculty (though it never did) and when, since 1977, it no longer admits its own students. For whatever reasons of their own, some refuse to comprehend that Radcliffe ideally still has a role to play that Harvard will never pick up and fill...
...that Hale is gone and neither he nor his Army lawyer is willing to speak on his behalf, it is left to his Army buddies to figure out what happened. "This story is so far out of character I can't comprehend what is going on," says Major General Kenneth Simpson, the senior Army officer in Alaska, whom Hale has described as his best friend. When Simpson heard of his friend's sudden retirement, he called Hale at his Army-owned home at Fort Myer, Va., only to get a message saying the phone had been disconnected...
Sanford is a complex, brilliant figure in American finance and someone to know if you care to comprehend why your bank just got gobbled up or why your mutual-fund company has begun offering a hundred new ways for you to invest your money. He popularized the notion of risk management, one of the most important ideas in modern finance. He didn't come up with the notion (credit academia), but more than anyone else he helped pioneer a new kind of risk-aware investing that offered a first glimpse of a world of high-wire, high-tech finance...
...conventional wisdom holds that Clinton is untouchable because a robust economy has made satisfied customers of us all. But the conventional wisdom doesn't begin to comprehend the intricacy of a scandal in which charges of unappetizing personal behavior are made by accusers of varying plausibility against a President of imperfect credibility. To situate yourself amid the interlocking treacheries of the story so far, you might need the sensibilities of Henry James and the skepticism of Henry Adams. Or you might simply arrive at a position in which misgivings about presidential sex don't translate into a lust for legal...