Word: fathom
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This is where they are wrong. These are the same students who have Saturday morning lectures from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., a feat I can’t even fathom. These are the same students whose grades for the entire year depend solely on the five or so finals they take at the end of their Easter term; the same students who, faced with the pressure of consecutive finals for a whole week, are nonetheless friendly and relatively calm – they clearly can survive a literature paper. Their way of education does have a benefit: total immersion...
...decades American firms have complained that a formidable array of government regulations, tariffs and other import barriers in Japan are as difficult to fathom as a formal tea ceremony, effectively blocking business there. Nonetheless, many U.S. companies have flourished in that environment, playing by the rules and somehow still coming out ahead. IBM Japan's 1985 sales might reach $2.7 billion, up about 20% from last year. Schick claims 70% of the safety-razor market. This year U.S. firms will export $25 billion worth of products to Japan. Proclaims Herbert Hayde, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Tokyo...
...There are three new dramas. Fathom is the most unusual, a sci-fi mystery about a bizarre life form that suddenly appears in the oceans. It's Lost, with fish. (From the press release: "Ever wonder what life would be like if a new form of sea life began to appear in locales all over the earth?" Yes! All the time!) Inconceivable, a comic-edged drama about a fertility clinic, looks like it was conceived through an egg donation from Grey's Anatomy. And in E-Ring, Jerry Bruckheimer (CSI) gives us a drama in the Pentagon, for your retired...
This spring's second insult to freedom-loving cowboy types was graver yet, although its implications might be hard to fathom for non-Montanans. The state's drivers, as of October, will not be allowed to drink alcohol in their vehicles. Outsiders may find this development astonishing. Drinking and driving was legal in Montana? Yes. And not only legal but rather popular. In a state that measures more than 700 miles from its southeast to northwest corners and where most of those miles consist of empty highway enlivened only by blowing tumbleweeds and the occasional bloated mule-deer corpse...
Turner has had a flamboyant lifestyle, and his true character is difficult to fathom. He can put on the charm or turn rude and overbearing. The father of five, including a son named Rhett, he preaches family values yet is celebrated in Alanta as one who does not always practice them. He works obsessively but just as easily becomes a raucous, tobacco-chewing, beer-swigging good ole boy. A yachtsman who defended the America's Cup in 1977 and won the title Captain Outrageous, Turner showed up at a victory press conference roaring drunk and tugging at a bottle...