Word: fathoming
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...practically impossible to fathom how much our squash teams are killing everyone. In the NFL, the common wisdom is that Dallas has built a "dynasty" with their Super Bowl victories the past two seasons and is equalling the "dynasties" of the Steelers or the Niners or whoever...
...Democrat, I find it hard to fathom the recent elections that left both Houses of Congress in Republican hands and made a man named "Newt" Speaker of the House. That man plans to have a political tract he wrote, entitled "Contract With America," read at the start of every business day in Congress for the first 100 days of the next session...
...policy implications that Murray and Herrnstein arrive at can be hard to fathom, even if one accepts that improving IQ is as difficult as they say it is. Why not redouble attempts to bring the lagging populations, white and black, closer to the norm? Murray acknowledges that IQ may be more malleable than he supposes. But he holds that a workable strategy for intervention, especially by the bumptious instrument of government, is simply not there. And his philosophical conservatism predisposes him to look first for solutions that don't involve government at all. So The Bell Curve suggests ending welfare...
...monarchy, Prince Charles' TV confession was a fiasco. It's hard to fathom how the embattled heir to the throne could replay 1992, the year his mother called her annus horribilis, but he has managed it. The tattle about his relationship with the married -- and Roman Catholic -- Camilla Parker Bowles had died down, but the scandal is back on the front page. Charles also showed a blithe disregard for his nation's constitution in revealing that he wants the coronation oath changed so he can be defender of all faiths, not just the Church of England -- breaking a 460-year...
...things have changed. If Kidder, Peabody's charges are to be believed, Wall Street and America have now progressed to the point that an African American is considered smart enough to run a bond-trading operation so arcane that many financiers, regardless of race, cannot fathom its complexities. And Jett was perceived as doing so well in the job that the firm's white leadership empowered him to trade for a two-year period with virtually no supervision. Leave aside whether Kidder, Peabody's charges against Jett are plausible. In a way his guilt or innocence is almost beside...