Word: interpreted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservatives shriek all around them, liberal churchmen have been bending over backward to avoid criticizing the film, stressing Scorsese's right to interpret Jesus in his own way and sometimes issuing a tepid defense or two. Fundamentalist fears are exaggerated, says the Rev. Eugene Schneider of the United Church of Christ, because "people who go to the movie are going to come out bored and leave before it is over...
...anti-perestroikers are trying to interpret glasnost as discrediting the achievements of socialism. But glasnost itself is an achievement of socialism. Economic perestroika, like glasnost, is being discredited, hobbled, scared off, worn down. In economics, as in literature, there are sacred cows who pretend to be defending the national interest and are actually defending only their own. Today glasnost must help the economy. Tomorrow, if glasnost is in trouble, it will be supported by the mighty shoulder of the new economy. Without personal initiative, we will not be able to move forward in either glasnost or the economy...
...rate. After dropping from 5.6% in March to 5.4% in April, it bounced back to 5.6% in May, leaving economists mystified about the trend. While the jobless rate is generally considered to be among the most accurate of the figures the Government puts out, economists argue over how to interpret the number. A 5.6% unemployment rate sounds fairly bad in an absolute sense, but some experts say that it overstates the degree of distress because a large number of those listed as out of work are people who are voluntarily moving from one job to another. According to this line...
Abadia said Panama "cannot interpret...[the maneuvers] as anything but the prelude to an armed invasion of Panama and if we are mistaken, let them demonstrate that we're mistaken...
...insensitivity lies in his phrasing of information in lecture and the implications of that phrasing. It also lies in the information he chooses to explore or omit and what I, a Black student, am left to interpret. For example, I am left to question his sensitivity when affirmative action is incompletely defined as "government enforcement of preferential treatment in hiring promotion and college admissions" in a book we had to read for his course that he edited. I am also left to question his sensitivity when I hear that Black men get feelings of inadequacy, beat their wives, and take...