Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People do not advise engaged couples to "date others," but they don't comprehend the commitment involved, according to Hardington, McNulty's fiance. "It's just so far from what they want. They want to go travel, to see the world. They want to go to grad school, to law school. They're not prepared to organize their life around someone else yet. We're doing something that 90 percent of the population does at some time. We're just doing it a little earlier...
Many undergraduates cannot relate to the commitment she has to her fiance, says Rafinski, a psychology major from Chicago. "A lot of people have said `I can't even comprehend. There's no way I'd feel ready.' But I feel that I'm ready...
Computers which can hear and interpret single-word commands have been around for several years, he says, but only now are computers being adapted to comprehend continuous speech. Within the foreseeable future, therefore, computers may be able to verbally interact with humans...
...whole idea is technically infeasible. One report says that the computers needed to manage a missile defense, for example, would have to be up to a million times as powerful as current machines. A program to run the Star Wars computers would be so complex that no human could comprehend it, and only other computers could write it. Furthermore, say SDI opponents, the computer system might be full of bugs because it could not be tested until an actual nuclear attack was under...
Reagan was equivocal on the issue. "I'm glad I'm not faced with that problem today," said the President, whose four children are grown, in response to a press conference question. He expressed sympathy for the predicament of a child who cannot comprehend "why somehow he is now an outcast." Yet the President also said he "can well understand the plight of the parents and how they feel" about possible dangers. New York Governor Mario Cuomo told the New York Post that he "would be scared to death" to send his 15-year-old son Christopher to a class...