Word: misunderstand
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...easy to misunderstand what people aresaying in terms of his allegations about theinternal conflicts," Kim said, "I'm sorry he feltthat way, but I didn't see those internalconflicts...
...misunderstand. There is still a nuclear problem. There are environmental problems. But there is a difference between a problem and panic. The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...
According to Robert McKenna, president of the Rhode Island Independent Higher Education Assistance Corporation, officials of many universities misunderstand the purpose of endowments, which were originally established to "protect the education of future generations...
Other wars, however, arise because the combatants misunderstand each other. That was true of Vietnam. The U.S. saw the Viet Cong as foot soldiers of an international army commanded by the Soviet Union and, in the crucial early years, by China...
...NATION'S HIGHEST COURT SHOWED LITTLE SYMpathy last week for Jose Tamayo- Reyes, a Cuban refugee accused of a barroom murder in Oregon. Tamayo-Reyes, who speaks little English, pleaded no contest in 1984 to manslaughter, but he later argued that a bad Spanish translation caused him to misunderstand what he was doing. After his lawyer erred by neglecting to present these crucial facts to an Oregon state appeals court, Tamayo-Reyes sought help from the federal court system, which has long heard legal appeals from state prisoners through a process known as a petition for writ of habeas corpus...