Word: comprehendible
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Fans have struggled to comprehend what possessed some of the world's best cricketers, handsomely rewarded for their prowess, to succumb to the approaches of subcontinental bookmakers. Bob Simpson, Australia's coach from 1986-96, acknowledges the theory that there are too many one-day games, the results of which are consequently of little importance even to the participants."But, in the end," says Simpson, "I think it's just player greed...
...comprehend the full horror AIDS has visited on Africa, listen to the woman we have dubbed Laetitia Hambahlane in Durban or the boy Tsepho Phale in Francistown or the woman who calls herself Thandiwe in Bulawayo or Louis Chikoka, a long-distance trucker. You begin to understand how AIDS has struck Africa--with a biblical virulence that will claim tens of millions of lives--when you hear about shame and stigma and ignorance and poverty and sexual violence and migrant labor and promiscuity and political paralysis and the terrible silence that surrounds all this dying. It is a measure...
...exempt from the nation's harshest drug laws. For others, including many who view imprisonment as a pointless and even dangerous punishment for drug addicts, Downey serves as a stark reminder of the strangling power of addiction, and the persistent failings of a system too bent on "justice" to comprehend the power of treatment...
...more fanciful." The three parts of the work (alternately slow, fast and slow) flowed well, and there was some obvious excellent writing, such as the one part where the violin seamlessly and idiomatically alternated between bowed and plucked notes). However, it may take several more hearings before I can comprehend the full scope of the work, as I was sometimes lost with the dramatic direction of the work. Still, Martino, a former Professor of Music at Harvard and winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in music, was in attendance and warmly acknowledged the performer...
...implement a living wage and a conscionable sweatshop policy for several years. This is the first time, however, we have sought direct access to the Harvard Corporation. The Corporation is the University's highest governing board. Unfortunately, it is also the most secretive; PSLM is only now beginning to comprehend the Corporation's design and its influence...