Word: misunderstand
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...curtail hours. Warns Tom Kring of the California Regional Family Planning Council: "The cutbacks may force women seeking first-trimester abortions into waiting longer and longer," an outcome that poses greater medical risks. Some counselors fear that the people in the poor neighborhoods served by Title X clinics will misunderstand the message of the latest court ruling. Many women may conclude that all counseling services have been halted. As a result, they may stop visiting the centers and receiving preventive care -- a primary goal of Title X funding. Brenda Alston, 29, who is a patient at Rust's clinic...
...Americans keep behaving like Americans, we will keep on encountering the same problems. One potential problem, as Kennan suggested and Saddam demonstrated, is that other countries will misunderstand us -- although the gulf war should clarify our notion of the boundaries of "permissible behavior," at least for the time being...
...misunderstand me. Sometimes it's necessary, not to mention quite fun, to judge others. In this case, however, the majority has chosen to counsel not only the students of Harvard (who actually read The Crimson), but also their peers at Yale (who read that other paper). I can see it now: Yalies scrambling to read the latest advice from the philosopher kings--and queens--in Cambridge...
...cast Saddam merely as a gangster is to misunderstand not only why he invaded Kuwait but also why he has gained so much popular support among the "Arab masses." Saddam's propaganda variously portrays him as Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonian King who destroyed Jerusalem in 587 B.C., or as Saladin, the Kurdish warrior who fought off the Crusaders...
Jurors are ordinary citizens, but when they decide a case they take on an extraordinary responsibility. The American legal system gives juries a great deal of power and rightfully so. But juries, like judges and courts martial, make mistakes. They can be intimidated, misunderstand the law or act out of prejudice rather than on the facts introduced in court...