Word: understandable
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...time and a decent, stable salary as attractive benefits to the profession. These are valid assertions, and many teachers enter the field for such selfish reasons. But I like to believe that the majority of the mentors in our public schools are there for the opportunity to help children understand their surroundings, past and present, in order to acquire knowledge and cognitive skills for use in future situations. The teacher, when confronted with the challenge of entering the classroom, embraces the daunting task instead of giggling nervously...
...course, you could probably say that about most experiences. Still, I don't understand how skiing to a place, stop-ping, whipping out your gat and then destroying some stationary targets tests athleticism...
Harvard scientists confess that they do not always understand the political and bureaucratic machinery behind the agencies that support them. But they add that they are not interested in where the money comes from as much as what it can be used...
...truth: As far as we, his family know, at the present time there is no cancer anywhere in Frank's body, and he is not in need of surgery of any kind. It's still difficult to understand why the media continue to pass along erroneous stories that frighten people...
...networks paid $17.6 billion for the right to broadcast National Football League games until 2005, even though viewer ratings have fallen 33% since the 1980s [BUSINESS, Jan. 26]. I don't understand the logic behind that staggering price, but I do know why fewer people are watching the NFL. The networks use, and sometimes even call, time-outs to insert commercials at every conceivable chance. They disrupt the flow of the game by presenting more advertising than action. The new agreement may last until 2005, but by then, will anyone be watching? R. CONRAD STEIN Chicago...