Word: comprehendingly
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...hardest things to comprehend about software, at least for consumers, is the price. While the cost of making a floppy disc and the packaging runs only about $4 to $7, the software sells for much more. A data management program like dBase II costs $700, while Micro/ Scan II, a stock-analysis program, can be as much as $12,500. Even a popular educational product like Bank Street Writer has an undis-counted price of $69.95, and a program to teach a preschooler the alphabet...
...they see other blacks become mayors of the largest cities, become astronauts, become presidential candidates, become Miss Americas and, more to the point, become doctors and scientists and lawyers and pilots and corporate presidents-become successes-then young blacks will begin to comprehend their own possibilities and honor them with work...
...criticism of the President is, for the most part, oblique. Nonetheless, he strongly implies that Reagan also became part of the problem by siding too readily with his "chums" in skirmishes over policy, presiding over an "incoherent" national security process and above all failing to control or even to comprehend fully decisions that were being made in his name. "To me," writes Haig, "the White House was as mysterious
...popular prime-time series. All seven had a rat-a-tat rhythm that sent out an unmistakable message: Hart is a man on the move. "The spots are real, real intense and jampacked," said Strother. "They are so rapid fire that the viewer needs a break to begin to comprehend them...
...case we're unable to comprehend all this, the filmmakers are, careful to provide us with subtly suggestive foreshadowing. Should we have doubts, for example, about the inherent goodness of ladies of the evening, one of Angel's friends tells her customers she's studying to be an accountant. "I don't know about you girls, but I'm getting out of this town," she tells Angel before, coincidentally enough, the ominous music begins and she gets bludgeoned to death by the necrophiliac. And, in case we weren't quite receptive enough to realize that the necrophiliac's sexual frustration...