Word: comprehendible
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...takes a couple of minutes for the tongue and the brain to comprehend what has just happened to them when you first ingest Diet Crystal Pepsi. At first, you think you've just drunk a lightly sweetened mineral water. On the second sip, your nose tingles and your throat burns slightly, alerting you to the fact that the drink is carbonated...
...alliance that will not be comfortable at all times. We will hold our friend's feet to the fire." Like many gays, Mixner sees Clinton as offering more sympathy than empathy. They perceive a President who is repulsed by discrimination and violence against gays but does not deeply comprehend gay life-style or homosexuals' sense of being different. "I believe his instincts are genuine and solid. But there is a lack of awareness," says Mixner. "Very few people in the Administration have been in a gay or lesbian household...
...without a doubt this issue is not a clear one. In forming his opinions the General has had to take into account a variety of facets of military life which we as civilians probably cannot even comprehend. Our University is an island, an artificial community, and the few students here who participate in ROTC do not represent the normal cross-section of enlisted men and women. I have known dozens of high school graduates who joined the armed services as their only hope. Military jobs often serve as the only alternative to a monthly welfare check, the only...
...Over the telephone she told me. It looks like you have a tumor in your pituitary gland, but it's really no big deal," Smith says. "It's hard for someone who has just been told she has a brain tumor to comprehend the words, 'no big deal.' I was very upset with the way the information was presented...
...doubts that managed competition will cure what ails the insurers. The idea, insofar as anyone can comprehend it, is to create a new layer of bureaucracy -- health-insurance-purchasing cooperatives, or HIPCs -- which will contract with insurance companies to provide health-care plans for consumers, including the poor and unemployed. In theory, the HIPCs will force the insurance companies to compete to come up with the lowest-cost plan, which will in turn cause the insurance companies to lean on doctors and hospitals to hold down their costs. Thus, whatever else happens under managed competition, the insurance companies will cease...