Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read this far, you deserve a vote. Why? Because only council members who understand students' ambivalence toward the council, recognize its shortcomings and acknowledge the importance of often vitriolic dissent can truly represent students...
...moral of this story? In the ongoing quest to achieve "user-friendliness," computer makers such as Apple have given us simplicity in place of comprehension. Although smiley faces, frowning faces, and cutesy language like "mouse" help people overcome their initial jitters with machines, manufacturers won't allow users to understand anything remotely technical. Macintoshes are so easy to use because we have no idea how they work...
...fail to understand why we're under such a cloud of suspicion," said Stop and Shop Vice President Charles Richards, adding that the supermarket company has owned its current building for more than 40 years...
...never understand what happened in the World Series," the A's fan continued, shaking his head. "That Gibson, he couldn't even make it around the bases. He was practically crippled. But he hit that homer. Off of The Eck. I never even heard of half the Dodgers who were playing, but we couldn't beat those no-names...
...course. Not that there is much evidence yet that a province like Guangdong would salute if Beijing insisted that it slow its rush to prosperity. As a Guangdong official says, "When the belly is fat, the emperor is far away." Which is not to say that Guangdong doesn't understand feigned compliance. A visiting Beijing big shot might not be accorded the kind of reception Rob Lowe would get in the girls' locker room of an American high school, but as this Guangdong cadre says, "When the leaders come, we are very careful to treat them very well...