Word: understanding
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...goal for the new century is "sustainable development": continued economic growth without environmental destruction. Is that possible? It depends on how well we understand that humanity is part of nature, not lord and master...
...understand that Omaha is in the Great Plains, where space is not at a premium. You can pirouette down the sidewalk in Omaha if you want to. But space is limited here in New York City. And no New Yorker ever walks more than two abreast; even if you're in a group of ten people, you'll walk in five pairs, not ten across. Or even better, single file...
...read each Harry Potter book many times--15, 11, 22 and 24, in order of publication, by her count. "When I first read them," she says, "I thought, 'The characters really relate to you--they're kids. They have bullies and bad teachers.' It's helped me understand something--people, maybe my friends, my teachers. It's influenced me to read more...
...there's a reason analysts are so bullish, competitors so fearful and regulators so confused, it's that even now very few people understand the future scope or reach of a company as big and diverse as AOL Time Warner. Time Warner is in the traditional media business; AOL is an Internet company. Because the two didn't overlap, antitrust lawyers saw no need for concern. But the more people looked, the more they thought this was not just a marriage of two companies in different arenas. It was potentially game changing...
...Ford. Along the way we learn that Greenspan is yet another powerful political figure who was in the room but didn't inhale, and that as a child he was terrified of the movie Frankenstein. We also get plenty of quotable Greenspan-speak: "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant," the Fed chief once told Congress. Where Martin lets us down is in detailing recent events that mark Greenspan's tenure at the Fed and have turned him into...