Word: understands
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Then he aimed a swipe at two of his Republican opponents: Ronald Reagan and fellow Texan John Connally, both of whom began their careers as Democrats. As a "lifelong Republican," Bush proclaimed, "I understand the party. I have worked in the vineyards." Indeed, Republican leaders admire Bush for holding the G.O.P. together during Watergate while he was party chairman. Admitting that he lacked political support in depth, Bush declared that the geographical breadth of his backing would help his drive for the nomination...
...tailored suits and blouses, often from Marks & Spencer?on twice-a-year bulk-buying sprees. Even the Queen sometimes appears slightly wind-blown in public, but Thatcher is invariably coifed and lacquered against the elements. She has already advised the staff at Downing Street that they "will have to understand that I must have an hour in my schedule once a week to have my hair done...
...also important to understand that the University's lack of sensitivity on the issue of Apartheid in South Africa is in line with Harvard's social and intellectual commitment to the particular brand of exploitation and barbarism cuphemistically known as Western civilization. It is in line with Harvard's failure to recognize the need to broaden its curriculum to include the range of alternative viewpoints to the male, white European ethnocentrism that it now purveys as "liberal" education. Harvard does not recognize or even understand the meaning and validity of Women's Studies.Afro-American Studies. Native American Studies...
...around the U.S., the lament is the same: in ways both devious and sinister, and too mystifying to understand, Big Oil is somehow out to rip off the public. Says Irene McMackin, a Milwaukee public relations consultant: "I just don't feel the crisis is real. I don't trust the oil companies." Adds William Meier, an Indiana insurance agent: "My emotional
People accept and admire the technical expertise of oilmen; it is the business side of the industry that they suspect. They fail to understand why prices keep going up, especially when the announcement of an OPEC production cutback or an increase in the cost of oil that is a month or more away by sea from the U.S. seems almost immediately to send the price of gasoline leaping at the pump...