Word: grasping
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...convertibles onto his Super Bowl-size venues. This week and next he will be playing on home turf, six nights at New Jersey's Giants Stadium, which will hold, with field seating, 60,000 people at a time. The size of all this may be a little hard to grasp, but try using this for scale: the Beatles, appearing at Shea Stadium in 1965, played before 56,000 people, one time only. They also played for 35 minutes...
...successful years as President under his belt. That is too long to dismiss as mere luck. The derisive labels of "amiable dunce" and "the Teflon President" lie shattered and discredited. The open contempt that the likes of Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill had for Reagan's limited grasp of the issues and his lack of understanding about his programs looks irrelevant these days. The endless reports about staff conflicts and personality clashes within the Administration, however true, turn out to be footnotes. The vaunted foreign people eaters, such as Canada's Pierre Trudeau, West Germany's Helmut Schmidt...
...next century, its territory invaded and dismembered, its people raped and massacred. Along with the foreign interventions came homegrown catastrophes: rebellions, revolutions, civil wars, famine and unspeakable cruelty. Luan, the Chinese word for chaos, is perhaps the single most important concept that the outside world needs to grasp about the new China, for the memory of the long years of chaos continues to have a profound impact on Chinese thinking today...
...president has been very aggressive in seeking faculty input on Allston,” he says. “There is a lot of information involved in making decisions for Allston. The average faculty member has put in nowhere near [the requisite] effort, and has a much weaker grasp of the issues and so you can’t expect them to make the central decisions...
...friends emphasize her fun side as well, describing Menendez as a “participant-observer” who always keeps a keen grasp on circumstances...