Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think these people basically don't understand the problem we have with changing the land use pattern," he said. "Each added acquisistion even in itself changes further the character of the neighborhood to institutional use. Cambridge has simply got to get control over this," he added...
ARTHUR OKUN: "Sometimes I understand this economy and sometimes I don't," laments Okun, senior fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. "I was dead wrong," he admits, in expecting unemployment to go up in September. Instead it dropped, indicating that the economy was far more resistant to a downturn that might check price boosts than had been supposed. Consequently, though Okun is usually vehemently opposed to a policy of relying primarily on money-supply policy to combat inflation, he proclaims himself "not horrified" by Volcker's actions. Okun fears that "interest rates could become so unstable...
...thing the Ayatullah does seem to know: that Iran's revolution will go its own way regardless of what outsiders think. "If you foreigners do not understand, too bad for you," he said at one point. "It's none of your business. If some Persians don't understand it, too bad for them. It means they have not understood Islam...
...words cheered millions of traditionally oriented Roman Catholics. But liberals claim that the Pope's stand shows that he does not understand the U.S. and lacks exposure to grassroots' thinking...
...familiarity in an unfamiliar continent. Thompson describes how one by one, couples and lone tourists fell prey to the magic of Sobhraj. Sobhraj's powers are almost impossible to fathom--as even the author admits--but the naivete of those who fall into his trap is even harder to understand. "Months later," Thompson writers, "an Interpol detective in Paris, would study the case and wonder why in the name of God these poor people didn't figure out what was goin on?" When somebody finally does put the pieces together--the unlikely hero is a sniveling Dutch embassy employee...