Word: comprehend
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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McCain, John •alleged failure of Obama to comprehend things is repeatedly pointed out by •comprehension of things is asserted to by Obama •conservatives appalled by Palin are dismissed as "Georgetown Cocktail Party" people by •hand of Obama is reluctantly shaken by as eyes of look elsewhere •"horseshit!" is twice muttered during debate by •medical records of are still insufficiently disclosed by •Michigan is given up on by •unfairness of life is bemoaned...
...Traditionally, human beings are not great at assessing this kind of risk - a peril that has not yet arrived and that is, in any case, hard to viscerally imagine. Witness people's reluctance to evacuate before hurricanes, and weather forecasts portend a danger far easier to comprehend than failing investment banks...
...maybe they're too close to their own beats. Maybe the effect of a credit freeze is so obvious and transparent to them that they can't quite comprehend how anyone could not understand its impact. That's not a service to the audience, but it's the impression I've gotten at times even from business journalists I normally admire. Last night on PBS's NewsHour, for instance, an anchor put the question to the New York Times' Joe Nocera. I've heard him discuss business news in layman's terms masterfully on NPR for years; if anyone could...
...similar vein: “Our moral advantage, still vast and obvious, is not a liability, and we should strengthen and expand it. Like our dependence on reason, it is a strategic strength.” But what does any of that mean?America has yet to comprehend the power that is Islamism, distinct from Islam. In a battle that is fought as much in the mind as on the ground or in the air, terminology is important, and Islamophobe is still hurled as an insult against those who speak out against the ideology that is related to the religion...
...Although Al-Hajj is still trying to comprehend how his life was so drastically transformed, he says he believes he was targeted simply because he worked for Al Jazeera. "Ninety percent of my interrogations were about Al Jazeera," he told TIME earlier this month. "I was interrogated more than 200 times, even a few hours before my release. I kept telling them I was just a cameraman." Al-Hajj believes his arrest in Afghanistan was largely a result of bad timing. As the Taliban's control over Kandahar evaporated in December 2001, the Jazeera man joined dozens of other journalists...