Word: fathoming
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...complains that "Cheney comes back from the White House and tells nothing." Pete Williams, an NBC News correspondent who was for years Cheney's press spokesman, used to joke about how the capital was full of Che-ney watchers, a breed like Kremlin watchers, who would try to fathom the man's thinking from whatever small signs he gave...
...arrogance of businesses that intimidate their own customers is hard to fathom because it is so utterly counterproductive. Who will buy the movies, the music and the Mattel toys once those corporations have made themselves infamous throughout the Internet for prosecuting and harassing children? Private censorship through the intellectual property system is disgusting, but when practiced against one's own present and future customers it is also foolish. Perhaps mobilized consumers, boycotting products made by companies that sue to censor young people, will help those companies learn the error of their ways...
...power. Klein and Attorney General Janet Reno and the DOJ, in other words, are regarded in Redmond as cartoon figures, rather like the image of Gates and Microsoft projected by rivals and echoed in the antitrust suit. Each side holds this cartoon view of the other but cannot fathom why anyone would hold such a cartoon view...
...Jung, pursued a policy of reconciliation through famine relief and other economic assistance designed to reduce tensions along what may be the world's most heavily defended border - and the most dangerous posting in the U.S. military - North Korea's policy has been more difficult to fathom. If there's any pattern at all in the periodic bouts of talks with the South, Japan and the U.S. interspersed with episodes of missile launching, gesturing at nuclear weapons proliferation and testing the South's defenses, it's one of extortion. Since 1994, Washington, Tokyo and Seoul have pursued a policy...
...movie The Manchurian Candidate, Frank Sinatra, unable to fathom the depth and extent of the evil that had been done to the mind of a man programmed to become a killer, cries, "Hell, hell!" People may say the same thing after last week's school shooting of a six-year-old girl by a six-year-old boy. On Tuesday the boy brought a pistol to an elementary school in Mount Morris Township, near Flint, Mich., and shot a classmate, Kayla Rolland, to death. He is too young to be charged with anything, but the county prosecutor has charged...