Word: understand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emotional wanderings, M is more like us than we wish to accept. In a final, passionate attempt to synthesize her internal world with the external world she is not quite ready to believe in, she declares that she needs someone to understand her, to guide her through her mental morass. She calls out in a desperate, plaintive voice, "We all hope, looking into the eyes of another, to find an answer...
...admissions office doesn't make mistakes. Really, they don't. Despite all the popular misconceptions of being the huge oversight, each member of the Class of 1993 is absolutely qualified to be here. Understand it. Live...
...sorry it happened, but I can understand it. You can play games with that. But you're not supposed to be playing games with the others -- not unless you're absolutely crooked...
...same time as it evolves into a more unified community. Never again will Washington be able to take Western Europe and its allegiance for granted. "We have grown up and have stronger muscles," says Italian journalist Ludina Barzini. "It's going to be difficult for America to understand that it is not the only rich Western power anymore...
...passions behind the fight are easy to understand for anyone who has seen the almost unimaginable sweep of the Amazon basin. The river and forest system covers 2.7 million sq. mi. (almost 90% of the area of the contiguous U.S.) and stretches into eight countries besides Brazil, including Venezuela to the north, Peru to the west and Bolivia to the south. An adventurous monkey could climb into the jungle canopy in the foothills of the Andes and swing through 2,000 miles of continuous 200-ft.-high forest before reaching the Atlantic coast. The river itself, fed by more than...