Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many Americans remain confused by the word détente, or razryadka. How do you understand its meaning in concrete policy terms and as it applies to regional problems such as those in Africa and the Middle East...
...understood right off, and when he drew the White House he sometimes included a hound dog, a beat-up pickup, a gas pump and Billy-just to make the Carters feel at home. Humorist Art Buchwald eased the presidential family into national life by telling his audiences that to understand them one should consider the Carter Administration as just another Hollywood television serial where an average former submarine officer and peanut farmer becomes President. He has a mother who runs off to India at age 68, a daughter who lives in a tree house, aides who don't wear...
Both from talking with her new companions and from sharing their experiences, she came to understand the network of catch-22 dilemmas that constantly plagued them. Cast out of a womblike hospital world, they were led into work programs intended to help them re-enter society. But the jobs were so lowly (example: slipping rings onto drapery rods at 50? an hour) that they only underlined the crazies' alien status in the community. Many simply preferred to collect the special federal stipends available to them when they filled out forms that officially recognized their mental impairments -and further ostracized...
...series of very striking dreams" that provide Bok with images of burnt skies and a world ruled by wind. He seasons his shanties with Gaelic and Eskimo and has attempted a Mongolian tune now and again too. "I don't sing anything I don't understand," Bok says. "But the Mongolians I learned these songs from didn't understand them too well either...
Letting judges roll around like untethered cannons seems indefensible at a time when the public clamor is all for accountability in government. Yet, before judges are judged too harshly, it is necessary to understand how they fit into the political process and became so powerful...