Word: understands
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...when rounding a buoy on an America's Cup racecourse. Taking such esoteric language uttered by experts in their field-whether it be computers (see U.S. BUSINESS) or toxicology (see MEDICINE) or catechetics (see RELIGION) or sailing-and turning it into a story that a non-expert can understand is a facet of our job that we consider of major importance. Bridging that language gap between specialist and reader often, if not always, can be done best by people who are not necessarily experts in the field under discussion...
...cares? "Sailing keeps you alive," says Chicago Psychiatrist Thaddeus Kostrubala, proud owner of a highly therapeutic 32-ft. cruising sloop. "It's a link with nature, with God, with the primeval. It touches your fantasy, your very wellspring. You have to read Conrad to really understand." For those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance...
According to Fairbank, another important cultural barrier is our inability to understand the importance of "face" or personal prestige as a motive force in everyone's life in East Asia...
...fact. Said Subcommittee Chairman John Sparkman, an Alabama Democrat who also heads the full Senate Banking and Currency Committee: "Ordinarily, the salesman is pushing you so hard that you don't even look at the prospectus until you have bought the shares. And then you don't understand it when you do look at it." Up to 40% of all front-end customers quit within three years and take a loss, since much of their investment has gone into the salesmen's pockets. A spokesman for the Association of Mutual Fund Plan Sponsors Inc., which represents...
...long as Lester can use his mind and his position to help folk with their minor individual concerns, then he is happy and everything will stay calm. But if ever he is forced to act as governor in a more complex situation which he cannot totally understand or control, then he may completely blow. If there were a riot in Atlanta, this could happen...