Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Africa, if indeed we accept the approximation of viewing the latter two as compact units. For one thousand years Russia belonged to such a category, although Western thinking systematically committed the mistake of denying its autonomous character and therefore never understood it, just as today the West does not understand Russia in communist captivity. It may be that in the past years Japan has increasingly become a distant part of the West, I am no judge here; but as to Israel, for instance, it seems to me that it stands apart from the Western world in that its state system...
Griggs also recalls Kenyatta giving speeches in three languages: "He would lead off in deep, booming English for the whites, talking of how Kenyans should not resent foreigners but understand that they were in Kenya to help blacks develop...
...Rochester than they did in high school, one worried mother asked who would help her son through the trauma of his first C. In answer, a panel of about 15 deans and assistants outlined a variety of academic, social and psychological counseling programs. Sighed another relieved mother, "They really understand kids here. "And parents...
...bureaucrats, it offers the provocative thought that bureaucracy is a public service for the benefit of West German citizens. It suggests that civil servants should try to put themselves in their clients' place. Avoid bawling out citizens for making mistakes on application forms, advises the booklet. Try to understand that they do not know all laws...
...country, other prosecutors and judges have also tried to reduce deal making. Results are mixed; Boulder, Colo., for instance, reports trouble keeping up with its docket without tradeoffs. And some doubt that district attorneys who grandly announce plea-bargain bans really enforce them. Still, it is difficult to understand why some jurisdictions manage to hold down plea bargaining, while others with comparable case loads bargain almost every time. Critics like Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz argue that bargaining is often born not of necessity but of "laziness"-or of judges competing for the cleanest docket, prosecutors aiming for high...