Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worked more this year on setting up the plays," she says. "Last year I couldn't do anything more than dribble. I was not a team player. I just couldn't understand how plays moved on the field...
...been studying RNA--one of the intermediate steps the cell employs in translating the DNA code--for 22 years. Whereas Gilbert has a definite medical goal pushing him on, Doty must stab in the dark and hope to come up with a lead which will help scientists to understand this most basic of cellular processes...
...confirm many of the approaches he already used as a supervisor. But he says he did learn how better to motivate the officers he is in charge of, how better to organize his time, the importance of setting management objectives and accurate reports. Most important, Shannon says, "I better understand the difference between management and the employee. That I am a manager and supposedly as a manager, I'm not really one of the boys." However, he adds, "You can't come on like a storm trooper...you have to be flexible...
NOWs are easier to understand, but they do not offer any great advantages over PATS. NOW accounts too are advantageous mainly to those who can maintain big balances, though the break-even point may be somewhat lower than with PATS. Under Citibank's plan, for instance, a depositor will earn 5% interest on the money he keeps in a NOW account and if he maintains a total balance of at least $3,000, pay no service fee. But if the combined balance drops below that, he must pay a charge...
...football some kind of mass men's room solicitation of the national psyche? Not at all, says Dundes. It is merely a sanctioned form of theater where players and fans can safely discharge their homoerotic impulses. Coaches who ask players to refrain from sex before a game intuitively understand that football is a temporary substitute for heterosexuality, just as "football widows" understand that their husbands are "dead to them sexually" while football is on TV. "Football is a healthy outlet for male-to-male affections," says Dundes, "just as spin the bottle and post office are healthy outlets...