Word: discernible
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...fast. It is the best performer in the family-controlled conglomerate that spawned it, the Samsung Group. Some analysts complain that the family of founder Lee Byung Chul, who died in 1987, still treats Samsung Electronics as a personal fief and that murky financial reporting makes it hard to discern the company's true profits. But neither worry has stopped investors from pouring money into the stock, which is up 65% over the past 12 months. Korea's consumers are spending more than ever, and they just happen to be among the most wired people on the planet, with easy...
Winokur’s role in Enron’s collapse as chair of the financial committee is also difficult to discern...
...would like to think that God is on our side against the terrorists, because the terrorists are wrong and we are in the right, and any deity worth his salt would be able to discern that objective truth. But this is simply good-hearted arrogance cloaked in morality--the same kind of thinking that makes people decide that God created humans in his own image. (See the old New Yorker cartoon that shows a giraffe in a field, thinking "And God made giraffe in his own image.") The God worth worshiping is the one who pays us the compliment...
...undergrads are sold on the concept. Jessica Huang ’04, who transferred from Cornell, remembers “feeling overwhelmed by the plethora of advisors and titles during orientation. Sometimes, it was difficult to discern whom I should see for what,” she says. Paul R. Berman ’04, currently taking a leave of absence, still wonders about his non-concentration academic adviser. “What does that title mean?” he asks. Berman met with his non-concentration academic adviser once at the beginning of the semester...
Grade inflation would be a problem in several situations—if grades were so inflated that it became impossible for students to distinguish themselves from their peers, for example. Or if grades became so inflated that graduate schools, employers and fellowship committees were unable to discern the good, the bad and the ugly among students’ academic performances. Yet another scenario: grades became so inflated that students at other universities began to assume an advantage over Harvard students because their A’s were perceived as being more “legitimate” than ours...