Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...UNDERSTAND that the libraries on campus are short of space. New books are published every day. Some of them are important. Others, just like obnoxious children, are lovable only to their parents...
Nancy Ryan, a coordinator for Cambridge's "sister-city" relationship with San Jose Las Flores in EI Salvador, said, "We should understand that the Jesuits were under the protection of the army at the time of their killing...
When Gorbachev began waxing eloquent about a "common European home," he almost certainly did not anticipate the scenario that would unfold as the renovators plunged into the task. But unlike his predecessors, he may understand that the Soviet Union will be more secure with neighbors who tolerate free minds, free ideas, free speech, free markets and free movement. If handled properly, the revolution unfolding in one country after another opens up opportunities, unimaginable just a year ago, to create not just a new Europe but a new and far less menacing world order...
...defense's expert witnesses not been allowed to testify? "You don't seem to understand," one of the Government's team told me. "We didn't decide the witnesses couldn't testify; the judge did. There was a judge in this trial! There was a jury...
...told the Japanese publisher that the book should be published in the U.S. so that Americans could better understand what Japanese are thinking. But someone circulated a pirated translation, a clear infringement of copyright. The book is basically written for Japanese readers, to tell them that it's time for Japan to stand up and speak its mind. I mention at one point in the book that Japan could drastically change the world balance of power by selling advanced computer chips to the Soviet Union. This is a very provocative thought, even...