Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRYING to fully understand recent history is like trying to size up a building with your nose pressed to it. It's a fruitless task. And yet recently, quite a few influential people have being trying. Sniffing away at this month's "Panama debacle," they have arrived at premature judgments of American involvement, or lack thereof...
...understand what the Verba committee set out to do and why the process was a failure, we should go back to the first meeting at which representatives of MSA expressed to Dean Spence their concern regarding Harvard's embarrassingly low number of minority faculty members. Spence said that his office could not interfere with the autonomy of the departments in hiring decisions, so he invited MSA to talk directly to the department chairs about the problem...
...decide to pretend that I do not understand English...
...economic summit in Paris in July, the leaders of the seven largest industrial democracies devoted a third of their final communique to an appeal for "decisive action" to "understand and protect the earth's ecological balance." Just a month earlier, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, representing the major economic powers, had called upon "all relevant national, regional and international organizations" of its 24 member states to take a "vigilant, serious and realistic" look at "balancing long- term environmental costs and benefits against near-term economic growth...
...Understand what employers are looking for. Identify several prospective employers and gather information-ideally from visiting people at the place of work, or at least from company and vocational literature - about what qualifications that kind of job requires...