Word: understandably
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...Hare continues to be rankled by the obsession with the factual backdrop to his art. "I don't deny that I'm a political writer, but there's more to my work than just the politics," he says. "[Political] journalists write about my plays. Because they don't necessarily understand works of art, they write about them in ways that make them sound like documentaries...
...today, because I appreciate the negotiations have been sizable ... But this seems to me to be so important at the outset, and this is why I've dwelled upon it, trying your patience and that of the committee, because I think it is very important, and I think you understand that...
...that identified a downward trend in American literacy, critics attacked the agency for publicizing "alarming national survey results." Evidently the NEA views its latest report as a validation of its efforts. "Our belief, then and now, was that the first step towards solving a problem was to identify and understand it," the agency's chairman, Dana Gioia, says in the report's preface. One of the most significant areas of progress involves the reading habits of young adults (ages 18-24), who went from a 20% decline in literary reading in 2002 to a 21% percent increase...
...investors who want some comfort in certainty even if the numbers are bad. The high estimate for losses in the last quarter is $.25. One analyst is taking the bullish case with $.59 a share profit. No one believe that the best numbers so it is hard to understand why they are even still on the books...
...back to Theodore Roosevelt, Obama has spent his entire life living in urban areas. Some of his supporters believe this background makes him more culturally sophisticated than many of his predecessors (they're relieved he won't call the city "Warshington"), while others say it allows him to better understand multicultural, 21st century America. But the fact that Obama has spent weekends walking down the street to the barbershop instead of riding a 4x4 across a ranch to clear some brush is more significant than any particular kind of cultural or sociological orientation. It means he thinks about policy problems...