Word: understand
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...Penn and Teller, who support gun rights. In one, they stuff a folded American flag inside a rolled-up copy of the Bill of Rights before seemingly setting it (and only it) on fire; the magicians then challenge the audience to embrace the ambiguity of the illusion and to understand that, regardless, the Bill of Rights remains. Later, on another video, they parse the language of the Second Amendment and quibble with those who quibble over punctuation around the word "people" and their right to bear arms...
First of all, it's important to understand what the climate-change bill does and doesn't do. The bill includes a raft of energy-efficiency provisions and a renewable-energy standard that will require 20% of all U.S. electricity to come from alternative sources by 2020. Chiefly, though, Waxman-Markey puts a cap on almost all of the greenhouse-gas emissions produced by the U.S. economy - everything from utilities to industry to transportation - setting a limit on how much carbon the country can produce. Industries are issued allowances each year that give them the right to emit a certain...
...bueno! to their questions, giving an occasional laugh. Finally, I caught a question about having a glass of something and primitively signaled my thirst with a quick head nod. Claudia, my host mother, explained what she was giving me. It resembled lemonade, so I pretended to understand and took a huge swig...
Translation? I don’t understand...
...necessary (like "when you have a black and a white"); the opinion of that the problem with Jews "may be they have a death wish. You know that's been the problem with our Jewish friends for centuries," and the suggestion by that Republicans should find attractive female candidates ("Understand, I don't do it because I'm for women, but I'm doing it because I think maybe a woman might win someplace where a man might...