Word: understands
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...despite such frank assessments of the department's troubles, Rosovsky, Ferguson and Patterson say they understand what is hanging on the committee's work. "People have already watched what we're doing here and it's easy for other institutions to say, 'If Harvard can't do it, we can't,'" Rosovsky says. Ferguson agrees. "What happens here will influence other programs all over the country--a failure might very well have the effect of stunting and stifling efforts that were so painfully commenced," he notes...
...department--and the creation of the executive committee seems to have compounded some existing intradepartmental tensions. Southern resigned abruptly from her position has chairman last June, citing the creation of the executive committee as one of the reasons for her committee. "I told the dean that I did not understand how it could work having both a committee and a chairman. I didn't see how I could work under those conditions," Southern said this summer...
Chidi Ikonne, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, will serve as acting chairman of Afro-Am. Ikonne replaces Eileen Southern, professor of Afro-American Studies and Music, who resigned in June partly because she said she did not understand how she could work with the executive committee. Ikonne will work under the supervision of the committee, Rosovsky said...
Carlo looked incredulous. "No, Anna, you don't understand, you see, the cruel shoes...
ERNIE CHRISTIAN, former deputy secretary of the Treasury for tax policy during Connally's tenure, now the top tax technician at Patten, Biggs and Blow, seemed to understand that the tax plan he had helped to conjure up for Chrysler was just one way to get the federal government to shell out the bucks. And he seemed a little confused that the politicians hadn't liked the tax credit plan better. After all, doing business through the tax code, which he called the guts of the economy, with fancy formulas and convoluted reasoning, is the best way to throw...