Word: understands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tran, head of the Vietnamese Fishing Association, is preparing to move his people to nearby Terrebonne Parish, where he hopes officials will be more hospitable. Says Perez: "They don't understand our laws. They fish out of season. There are reports they catch seagulls, pluck them alive, and when they decide to eat them, wring their necks. Dogs - that's one of their favorite foods too. I have a friend who had a setter, and one day he came home and saw the hide sitting right out front. That's their business if they eat dogs...
Only two weeks ago, as the House committee was completing its work, did the Administration come up with a complex new tax bill. "Even the sponsors don't understand it," charged Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman in the midst of last week's nine-hour debate, which touched on all aspects of the U.S. economy. His committee's bill, he said, is a "strong response to a nation worried about inflation and a message to the middle-class families of this nation that they aren't forgotten...
...Ecumenical Mediator. He should understand his Petrine Office as a primacy of service within Christianity, as an office to be renewed in the spirit of the Gospel and exercised with responsibility for Christian freedom...
...chilling caricatures of conventional morality, marriage and love, as well as a wholesale shredding of the notion that human dignity has any meaning. The play depends heavily on characterization, and one senses that if someone filled in the background which is only hinted at in the dialogue, you'd understand it a lot better...
...cannot understand how anyone could give Viva Italia! a favorable review. Now, your run-of-the-mill jerk armed with a typewriter might praise anything, seemingly at random--but when some of your big names, like, for example, Vincent Canby, give a film a good review, you usually figure it must have something going for it. Viva Italia! might, indeed, have something going for it, but other than a few good sequences, I couldn't possibly find them. This ostensible comedy is the worst, most offensive legitimate film I have seen in a long time I can only repeat what...