Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There was some super goaltending and all our goals were super goals," Dooley said. "We have a young team and the lines and defense pairings aren't used to playing with each other yet. As the year progresses, they'll begin to understand each other's tendencies, and we'll get better and better...
...addition, Asian-American students are oftensecond-generation Americans with close ties totheir families that may make it harder for them toadjust to college life and harder for theirroommates to understand them...
...example that Hernandez-Gravelle cites isthat of a roommate asking, "So why do you keepcalling your mother, Maria, all the time." Shesays that freshmen who do not understand the closefamily bonds of some minority groups do notrealize that their remarks are inappropriate, sothe College needs to educate them...
...very well understand American disillusionment and irritation. One must also remember that it was the U.S. that pioneered decolonization, which gave birth to the Third World. There was a kind of adolescent period, I think, in the newly independent developing world where people became, as adolescents often do, extremely radical. The typical example of this trend, the assembly resolution equating Zionism with racism, was a totally counterproductive move...
...shabby way to treat a distinguishedscholar. I don't understand it," Mirsky said...