Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program helps you understand how the government functions and that compromise is essential for making progress on any significant issues," said Robert Buror '00, a NSC participant...
...Gingrich's staff has chosen to plead something between stupidity and disloyalty. An aide says Gingrich defended the tax break because he didn't really understand its political liability. When staff members sat him down and explained it, Gingrich felt, one says sadly, "betrayed...
...Fein that if it wanted to have a say in the future of Northern Ireland, it would have to secure a cease-fire from the I.R.A. and agree to respect democratic principles. When it did just that, Blair turned his attention to Trimble's Unionists. "Some Unionists failed to understand that if we do not join the talks, London and Dublin could impose a political solution on us," says John Taylor, the deputy leader of Trimble's party. With that possibility staring him in the face, Trimble could hardly have said no to the talks...
...stories seem completely unrelated--three profoundly different disorders treated with three different drugs. Yet all three medications have one crucial element in common: they target the brain chemical serotonin. Though serotonin has been known to researchers for nearly a half-century, only in recent years have neuroscientists begun to understand how important this one substance is to the functioning of the human psyche. Serotonin, or the lack of it, has been implicated not only in depression, uncontrollable appetite and obsessive-compulsive disorder but also in autism, bulimia, social phobias, premenstrual syndrome, anxiety and panic, migraines, schizophrenia and even extreme violence...
...really understand why there's a policy in the yard that students have to stand 100 meters from any dorm to smoke. As long as they don't leave cigarette butts around. I think it's okay. --Elizabeth A. P. Allen '00, Holworthy...