Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only way that American education can be reformed is if you understand where the public stands on these issues, refine those views and go with something that is acceptable to them...
...elevator was silent. He repeated himself. "I'm not trying to be rude. You understand," he said...
...understand," He turned to me. I returned his look with a blank stare. I was clinging to the back wall, my brain slowly shifting focus from intense concentration on maintaining my balance in a moving object to the realization that someone was speaking...
...merely asking a coworker for a friendly favor, I would expect him to understand. To laugh about it, even. And maybe to analyze the motivation behind his actions a little more deeply...
...When waters were cleaner and trout spawned nearly everywhere, killing and eating the fish were a more common reward for the catch. But a generation raised on conservation ethics is releasing fish to reproduce and perhaps be caught again. Our atavistic selves relish the hunt, but our better natures understand the need to protect what we cherish. Fly-fishing lets us do both...