Word: comprehend
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...want to launch against that guy and find out who it is. The F-20 is tailored so that as soon as you turn the electrical system on, you can hit the air." About here in the pilgrim's education, his mind commences laboring furiously to comprehend the first of hundreds of tight little wads of initials they use in the defense game. In this case it is the INS, or inertial navigation system, whose alignment takes three to ten minutes in planes that fly with conventional navigational rigs, but in the F-20, owing to Honeywell's ring laser...
...personality, combined with an almost regal confidence, that enabled Greenberg to build the AIG empire. In the early days he used to drive through New York telling independent insurance agents that if they had clients no one would insure, he'd write the policy that day. "If he could comprehend it, he'd underwrite it," says Joe Coughlin, a risk consultant at Corporate Risk Solutions. That confidence, which still permeates the culture at AIG, led the firm to embrace businesses that others would turn down, from firearms dealers to makers of football helmets to school-bus companies...
...Americans couldn't comprehend we would have the ability to go into areas for protracted times to do our strategic roles,'' says former Afghanistan SAS taskforce intelligence chief Adam, who spoke exclusively to Time. "It's not what they do, because they think you go in for a day or two days, and do your business and get out,'' says Adam, who does not want his surname used for security reasons. "It wasn't until after certain high-tempo combat engagements during (Operation) Anaconda that we kind of worked out that we can do better than this.'' Similar distinctions were...
Oddly enough, Baer is the most shaded character in the film, in his way prefiguring a more modern ambiguity. But the film is most significantly about puzzled people trying to comprehend the cosmic reversal of fortune that was the Depression. They don't have much more than raw courage and simple virtues to rely on. Unlike most period pieces, Cinderella Man encourages us to fondly recall not songs or clothes but values we have largely mislaid. Look on the faces of the elder Braddocks when they realize they don't have enough fried bologna to feed their kids...
Second: Fixing the machine. As I’ve argued before, Democratic analysts are “TV weathermen” next to the Republicans’ “investment bankers”—anecdotally describing trends they don’t particularly comprehend, rather than acting based on a methodical and measurable understanding of the electorate in an information age. Of course the party shouldn’t substitute a poll for a moral compass—but it is malpractice to make ignorant and outmoded decisions. I am sick of all the campaign innovations?...