Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beyond the tradition and legacy of Harvardhockey, the chance to play every day at a highlevel was great for my development and future inhockey," Mleczko said. "Learning to play to therole expected of me and to understand what's bestfor the team helped my individual and teamdevelopment. This was a great step along the wayin my aspirations...
...Anthropic Principle states that 'if the universe weren't suitable for life, we would not ask why in the first place." Although many physicists dismiss the Anthropic Principle as groundless, Hawking defended it as necessary to understand that models of the universe are shaped by our human limitations...
...They just can't understand. With their tremendous vocabulary and intelligence, they just can't understand," he wrote...
Among other things, it means accounting firms need to hire people who may not know a debenture from a dividend, but who do understand carbon-dioxide emissions or child-labor scams. Thus, when the London office of KPMG recently formed its new Sustainability Advisory Services (SAS), it hired the core personnel en masse from the Body Shop, the British cosmetics firm that helped pioneer the practice of corporate social and environmental accountability...
...Simon Blackburn tried to teach me philosophy, an endeavor I suspect he found rather frustrating. If he had written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas. But that...