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Word: understand (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assume the role of what I thought kids were, what I thought was In. Sports was one way of fitting in. But I was never Mr. All-Star Athlete. It was something that got me out, as opposed to staying home and reading a book. Which I didn't understand anyway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...when they are filming in far-flung locations. Cruise says it helps to have a wife in the business: "It's like trying to explain how driving a race car feels. You can't do it. They've got to get in the car themselves. I need someone to understand what I'm doing, so I get good input, so I'm not in it alone." But Rogers, 34, is also, obviously, another crucial woman in Cruise's family. "The most important thing for me," he says, "is I want Mimi to be happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

...that my writing has become relatively lusterless," he observes. "But your literary style is kind of like your face -- you can't do much to change it. I just hope that you can look at a shelf of my books and say, 'This is a 40-year struggle to understand the human race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOM MCGUANE: He's Left No Stone Unturned | 12/25/1989 | See Source »

While businesses and individuals may conceal their assets for purposes that are completely legal, or dubious at worst, the systems set up for their convenience can be perversely efficient at helping drug barons launder as much as $100 billion a year in U.S. proceeds. "It is hard to understand why we failed for so long to institute adequate controls," says Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry, chairman of the Senate's Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations. The state of regulation is "so lackadaisical," says Kerry, "it's almost damnable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Torrent of Dirty Dollars | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

...will look at me and frown. Like you, he probably won't understand a word I say. But I understand every single one. That's what memories are all about...

Author: By Theodore D. Chuang, | Title: Daddy? What Were Sports in The 80s Like? | 12/15/1989 | See Source »

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