Word: insightful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year-olds have the imagination--or the insight--to write such songs. Apple credits--or blames--her parents, who split several years ago, for her emotional acuity. "You can be young and know a lot about relationships," she says. "I've been in the middle of a couple of marriages, so I've seen a lot about how relationships work." The newcomer hasn't given any live solo concerts in the U.S., so the jury's not in on her ability to perform outside a studio. In the meantime, though, Tidal shows that something good can come from...
Whether rent control was an iron curtain descended across Cambridge is a matter for debate, but in 1994, rent control's opponents had an insight into how to tear it down...
Leary "managed to sell a lot of students on the idea that you can get wisdom and insight from a pill, that drugs were a short cut," said Henderson Professor of Psychology Brendan A. Maher, who was then acting as the co-chair of the Department of Personality...
...Graham Evangelistic Association, succeeding his father [RELIGION, May 13]. But to call Franklin a "somewhat limited man" lacking "curiosity" about "intellectual and theological" matters is an unfair assessment of him. Anyone who knows him well, as I do, will tell you he possesses a breadth of experience and an insight into global affairs that are uncommon among many world leaders. Through his numerous trips to the Middle East and through dealings in other international hot spots, he has developed a working knowledge of important issues. Granted, he is not likely to turn up at a protracted think-tank meeting...
...detect areas of rapid rotation as much as half an hour before a twister touches down. And now--thanks to an unprecedented data-gathering effort known as VORTEX (short for Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment)--these daredevils of meteorology are beginning to provide fresh insight into the long-standing mystery of what it is, exactly, that creates a tornado...