Word: understandings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hope people here understand there are flaws in any type of ranking of institutions and that there are a lot of good medical schools out there," Gibbons said...
...Japan Inc. myth, and Nissan isn't one of them. Certainly its manufacturing and engineering prowess are world-class. And Nissan still builds first-rate automobiles. It simply doesn't make the right kind, nor does it know how to sell them. "We've failed to understand what the market wants," Hanawa told TIME early this month. "We're reflecting upon that." Deep meditation is more like it. Nissan has been paralyzed by its own bureaucracy and a legacy of tension between management and labor in Japan...
...fact, the group members are trying to branch out beyond music. Watkins is working on a book of poetry--though fans shouldn't expect it to be anything like Jewel's recent best-selling collection. "I don't even understand her poems," says Watkins. "I love Jewel, but I don't understand what she's talking about. You'll be able to understand my poems, you know what I'm saying...
...turns out that most people--despite the prospect of playing with those pointy metal spears that, for reasons I can't understand, they allow prisoners to use--aren't too psyched on this picking-up-trash part. That's why the Adopt-a-Highway Litter Removal Service of America lets you pay them to do the charity work for you. In return, your corporation gets to put up a sign saying you like highways more than Somali orphans...
That won't be the couple's first brush with fame. Earlier this month West was on Oprah. That appearance sent West's awkwardly written tome into the Top 10 on Amazon.com's best-seller list. For those who doubt his story, West says, "I understand why people would be skeptical. I think it's because everyone knows you can't have more than one person living in a body." Well, exactly...