Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Byron has been trying to understand that process for much of his career. A graduate of Yale and Columbia Law, he joined TIME in 1971 and reported from Bonn and London, often about business and energy, before becoming a New York-based writer two years ago. "I hear the same solutions proposed, and the same complaining I heard five years ago," he says of the current crisis. "It's like watching reruns of a depressing moviethe same scenes, the same actors and the same script...
...than aircraft carriers, for refineries that look like visions out of Star Wars. Be amazed as mesmerized millions of people place their bets on a future of abundant energy and hope for the best, in a game with rules so complex and fast changing that practically no one can understand them...
...have seen many deficits and limited profits in U.S. subsidiaries in South Africa, it would seem that a sizable share of the proceeds of any sale of assets there would be dealt with by the South African Foreign Assets Control officials as old profits requiring such a license. I understand that security rands are not currently legal tender in South Africa, and that the government bonds in question are likely to be of the 15 to 30 year category. If all this is accurate, it would seem that without drawing such attention to it as to depress foreign investor interest...
...year-old tradition by leaving India in 1970 to attend spiritual summit conferences in Geneva and in 1971 at the Divinity School. Faced with fast-paced technologically-oriented lives, Westerners were thirsting for the rest and calmness of the East, Chitrabhanu says: "If they take the time to understand the inside life as they have understood the phenomena of the outside, it will be a blessing for mankind." It is just this Eastern calm and self-awareness that Chitrabhanu is trying to instill...
...were standing under some bright lights and couldn't understand why he was screaming at the three of us," she said. She added they could not see any police cars in the area...