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Word: understandable (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...These people, since they were on-site, can provide valuable insight into solving the problem. In order to solve a problem you must first understand it. [Nowrojee and Ayres] are people who have something of value to share with us," Antwi said...

Author: By Harrel E. Conner jr., CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activists Recall Rwanda Genocide | 3/10/1999 | See Source »

...need people to understand that [the rally]is not so much about punishment for the men but tomuch more effectively support survivors in acrisis and in the long-run," she said. "Harvard'spreventive resources are especially lacking...

Author: By Robert K. Silverman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Students Ready To Surround University Hall | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

ADAPT first hired consultants from the firm KPMG, but the firm "did not understand higher education," Segall says...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: University Accounting Overhaul Year Behind, Over Budget | 3/9/1999 | See Source »

...Chechnya or East Timor or Quebec? Once you start tinkering with global cartography, everyone wants his say. The unintended consequences of malleable borders scare away all but the most arrogant of statesmen. Yet Secretary of State Madeleine Albright sounded ready to try it last week: "Great nations who understand the importance of sovereignty at various times cede various portions of it in order to achieve some better good for their country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Kosovo to Kurdistan: Freedom Fighters | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...five-day group trek), says his clients are "addicted to risk management." He leads them into the back, where they are supposed to apply the three rules they follow in their own work: Recognize the risk, analyze it, then manage it. "A lot of people don't understand the snow," says Pavillard. "It looks beautiful, but it is very insidious, and it never stops changing." Janet Kellam of the Forest Service Sun Valley Avalanche Center teaches classes in which students are given all the information they need to make a sensible decision--the right route, say--in order to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Steep, Deep and Deadly | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

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