Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began with a 1928 look at The American People, and has in recent years included Judaism (1972), Capitalism (1975) and Socialism (1978). Islam merited such treatment, says Associate Editor Marguerite Johnson, who wrote the main cover story, because "the Iranian revolution has made it especially important for Westerners to understand the driving energy and devotion Islam commands from so many." Correspondent Dean Brelis was given a vivid example of that devotion when he visited a Bedouin village in the Sahara for this week's story. Reports Brelis: "An elderly Bedouin invited me to his home and showed...
...shows their lack of faith that we'd understand the situation--unless there's something they still haven't told us," Donald E. Tarver '82, said yesterday...
Alison Dundes '81, a former student of Auspitz's who organized the letter-writing campaign, said yesterday that "Auspitz is one of the most popular instructors in Social Studies, and I can't understand why her colleagues aren't creating a fuss to hang...
...what is already evident is that the engineers at Three Mile Island, for whatever reason, were confronted by a situation they had not foreseen, were uncertain at first how to handle?and most unsettling of all, perhaps did not even understand. At the least, the eight other plants using the same design, and built by the firm of Babcock & Wilcox, might be taken out of operation until the problem is thoroughly analyzed. This is the approach used by the aviation industry, which sometimes grounds all planes of a given model when a dangerous structural or mechanical defect is found...
...party may reduce the incentive for Assembly members to keep track of individual needs and opinions in their own houses. Furthermore too many meetings means both that there is less time for the real work of research and that an even smaller number of party leaders are able to understand and control the situation...