Word: understands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...burning and looting that erupted in the Windy City, Daley appointed a nine-man "blue ribbon" investigating committee to determine, among other things, if a conspiracy was the cause of the chaos. "If anyone doesn't think this is a conspiracy," he said darkly, "I can't understand...
However, their position as a political-economic buffer group between the British and the Africans engendered animosity from both sides. Africans especially resented Asians for holding the semi-skilled jobs denied them and for growing wealthy by selling to Africans. Moreover, the Africans had little opportunity to meet and understand the Asians, who cloistered in tight communities and shunned intermarriage. Asian contacts with Africans were either on a master-servant or trader-buyer relationship...
...fact, Mayor White, after his politically costly rejection of the United Front, is probably beginning to understand that the conventional approach is also bad politics. Its particular hazard is that when the Mayor chooses any one group and rejects the competing others, he makes one friend and a dozen enemies...
...truth is that it is not. In fact, all around the country shrewd administrators understand that demands for Community Control which sound radical and revolutionary can also be wise administrative practice. McGeorge Bundy, for example, moved quickly in this direction in his recommendations for New York City schools (though his approach was severely limited in many respects...
...Committee on Houses has underestimated the intensity of student desires for representation," Jeffrey C. Alexander '69, HUC vice-president, said yesterday. "Their constant snubbing of student opinion--with parietals and Afro's current demands--shows they don't understand that students today are learning to respect their own legitimacy and their own power," he added...