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What the President still seemed unable to comprehend in all of these maneuvers was the gravity of his predicament, especially in the Congress, which holds his political future in its hands. Sensing a fateful new determination on Capitol Hill, TIME Veteran Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil reported last week: "The blunders of the President have absolutely altered the Congress. What is seen as the arrogance and disregard for law on the President's part have stiffened the members of the House and Senate?Republican as well as Democratic?in a firm resolve simply not to tolerate what he has done...
...Communists for nearly three years, he was liberated in 1950. By 1954 he had founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity-known more simply as the Unification Church. In the same year his wife of ten years left him because, he claims, "she could not comprehend my mission...
...experienced traumatic changes in their attitudes toward themselves and other people when they realized that they were not fighting for democracy as had soldiers in World War II. PVS manifests itself when veterans are unable to relate these new attitudes to families and friends who in turn fail to comprehend the sense of futility the soldiers have experienced...
When a French soldier stationed in Egypt discovered a slab of rock over 150 years ago, he hardly suspected that his discovery would help break the mystery of ancient hieroglyphs. Although Harvard's esoteric acronyms such as WOE and GSTFU are not impossible to comprehend, a rundown of the University's secret code, a la the Rosetta Stone, can be as useful to newcomers as a map Cambridge...
...context. Nevertheless, his book is a brisk narrative that raises fundamental questions about the relationships between international business and governments. If Sampson has no final answer, it is because the multinational and conglomerate phenomena are still so new that, beyond profits and losses, corporations do not yet fully comprehend the effects of what they are doing. · R.Z. Sheppard