Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saying that many Americans have enough experience with temptation, addiction in one sense or another and the little lies that become big ones to look at President Clinton and say, "There but for the grace of God go I." As a Democrat in Congress has put it, "People understand human frailty better than political pundits...
...about the whole thing, need to be given regular opportunities to vent. To make sure members don't openly criticize their colleagues who have to take a different path for their own political survival, Gephardt has been mixing and matching members of these 10 groups so that each can understand what's behind the views of the others. "He has made it clear that Democratic members are his first priority," says an attendee at one of the small meetings. "The President is his second loyalty...
Want to jump into this group with me? First, make sure you can handle the pain that's going to come before the gain. Understand that a lot of investors who took capital gains earlier this year are going to be looking to offset those gains with losses between now and year's end, for tax purposes. They're going to sell some of their losers, including oil-service stocks. So while these stocks are attractive now--otherwise, remember, insiders wouldn't be buying--their prices might well go lower before they go higher. Decide how much you want...
...never fully pried open. It seems like an arbitrary choice at first, but as the novel progresses, it makes sense: Schwartz is putting a kind of disciplined distance between himself and a mourning middle-aged mother whose anguish may be too raw and primal for a male writer to understand. In the meantime, the two men circle each other, nearer and nearer, meeting by happenstance, then by design. At first it is only Dwight, the perpetrator, who understands what links the three of them. His crime makes him all-knowing, a sort of God. That's the dark truth...
...Yeah, I'm doing a reading tonight, and nobody's going to understand a word...