Word: fathoming
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...high school and going right into the war. Maybe with adventure in their hearts and patriotisim in their hearts, or maybe they felt it was a just a job to do. Or maybe all of the above. And then getting into battle that just was more than they could fathom. Their average age was 19. What that must have done to the brain of a young kid. And then going home, but not normally like most kids. The government put them out on this war-bond drive. They came back to a million people at Times Square, and climbing these...
...past five days of my life have been the most harrowing five days I [have ever] experienced. When I heard the news on Wednesday that two Israeli soldiers had been taken hostage I knew it was not good news, but I could not fathom in my wildest dreams what that would bring...
...Indeed, the facts would be hard to fathom in just about any place outside Chicago. The government of Cook County, with a population of 5.5 million, has an operating budget over $3 billion, the prospect of a $100 million budget deficit and unanswered questions about possible tax increases and service cuts. But since Cook County Board President John Stroger, 77, suffered a stroke on March 14, a week before easily winning the primary election, he hasn't been seen in public since. For all practical purposes, no one has been running the county for the past three months...
...Organization guidelines. Greg Leslie, associate professor of chemical engineering at the University of N.S.W., worked on Singapore's scheme with engineering firm CH2M HILL, which is proposing to upgrade Toowoomba's sewage-treatment plant. Leslie thinks objections raised to such schemes in Australia verge on hysteria. "I can't fathom anyone in their right mind saying they wanted to drink sewage," he says. "But drinking highly treated water is a completely different kettle of fish." Given that desalination also uses reverse osmosis-a process so precise it can remove chemicals and contaminants at the molecular level-to convert sea water...
...have much in the bank. Forensic auditors have discovered that cash flow in 2000--the money left over after the bills are paid--was a negative $153 million, not the heady $3 billion claimed. The nearly $1 billion profit was bogus. (Forget 2001. Even the auditors couldn't fathom the books that year...