Word: understandable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers at ground zero say hindsight doesn't do them justice. "People who weren't there don't understand," Deputy Paul Smoker, the second officer on the scene, told the Denver Rocky Mountain News. "It was unbelievable craziness." Part of the problem may be that the SWAT team was facing the emerging new paradigm of American crime: the school massacre. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold weren't bank robbers or hostage-takers; they wanted nothing except to kill, often and quickly, and they had the preparatory advantages of being insiders. Any of the hundreds of backpacks littering the hallways could...
...just a nightmare," Sgt. George Hinkle, a member of the Lakewood Police Department SWAT team, told the Washington Post. "What parents need to understand is we wanted teams in there as quickly as we could. We were going into the situation blind. We had multiple explosions going off. We thought there could have been a band of terrorists in there. We had teams inside there doing good work from...
...true heart of the poems is found in these comments. It is not actually the objects that Salter is writing about but rather perceptions of those objects. The reader is drawn in by these perceptions. Seeing through Salter's eyes, we begin to understand her connections, how her mind works. In "Libretto" images of a record player and a silk couch lead to the past, so we see what these images mean to the narrator...
...People need to learn how to think quantitatively--We do live in a technological age. Technology, economics and government are intertwined," Ehrenreich says. "We need to understand the numerical ways of expressing trends which have to do with society in a general way. It's very reasonable to add this requirement...
...very much want the teachers and administrators to understand the [disabilities] practices and policies," Johnson said. "Any teachers or administrator has to understand the law and how to make the law work...