Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conveyed. Perhaps she gets a bonus for being a particularly petty bureaucrat. Perhaps she resents foreigners and their privileges. A Chinese train's best accommodations, the "soft sleeper" compartment, in which two bunk beds actually sport linen, are reserved for foreigners and high party and government officials. I could understand her hating such preferential treatment, but then again, she and her colleagues do pretty well because of it. For notwithstanding my status as a foreigner, the "soft sleeper" car was "sold out" until a kind official laid a carton of cigarettes and a small cash "bonus" on the ticket agent...
Funny? Maybe. But not unexpected. By now, even I understand the role of guanxi in China. I only wonder how the whole system works nearer the throne...
...understand, he is working atchanging the fundamentals with much less concernfor the immediate appearance, which I think isadmirable and unusual," says Richard J. Zeckhauser'62 Ramsey professor of political economy at theKennedy School of Government...
Still Spence's defenders say his caution is anintegral part of his method: To work effectively,Spence reasons, he must understand problemsthoroughly before attacking them...
Today, as America attempts to understand its collective experiences with Vietnam the war has followed its veterans back home. In Country, a new film by Norman Jewison attempts to deal with the Vietnam War in this larger sense. Though a substantial body of recent films have attempted to examine the Vietnam conflict In Country is the first film to deal directly with the impact of the war on its survivors--the children family and friends of those who fought and died as well as the veterans themselves...