Word: understandingly
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...couldn't seem to get it when it came to skiing," says Claudia Carbone, a Denver writer whose groundbreaking book Women Ski was first published in 1994. "It ran from skiing on poor equipment or equipment designed for the male body to classes taught by men who didn't understand a woman's approach to sports...
Colorado's Keystone and California's Heavenly in Lake Tahoe, among others, brought in professionals who understand that women learn better at their own pace in small, friendly groups; are more interested in technique than in speed; and mostly just want to have fun. As Carbone puts it, "Women prefer to dance with the mountain rather than attack...
...fact that the value of employer-provided health benefits is not included in employees' taxable income. Making a portion of these benefits taxable, Bush the Elder reckoned, was a smart way to pay for health care for folks who had none. But G.O.P. leaders were apoplectic. Didn't Bush understand that a tax hike meant political death? The uproar was so swift and furious that White House staffers spent the night using razor blades to excise the offending page from printed budgets...
...friends of my late husband's. They served me well. But the call of national unity required me to remove them." She continued, "I tell you this, for you too have had friends that duty required you to change. I tell you this because you, more than anyone else, understand that duty and country must come first, for the soldier as well as for the commander in chief...
...very close to home. Geographically, I was within earshot of one famous shootout in the early '90s, which happened in my neighborhood with automatic weapons. Also, my family is connected to the film industry, so I knew people--friends and acquaintances--who were getting shot at. I wanted to understand what was going...