Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Howard Baker sided with Shultz. "I have but one constituent," he said, referring to the President, who was chairing the meeting. "And I understand that he wants to overcome these obstacles and push ahead. We have a presidential commitment. We have an obligation to make a real effort...
Meese believes he can defy history. He still does not quite understand what he has done wrong, how he has transgressed. His voice over the telephone is cheery. "If you ask people around the country what it is that Ed Meese did wrong, few could tell you," he insists, booming into the line. "There are a lot of people out to get Ronald Reagan. One way is to get those close to him. The closer you are to Ronald Reagan, the more part of his policies you are, the greater a target you become. And the more resistant...
...perhaps uncomprehending, too hurried and a bad judge of people, events and ethical strictures. Whether or not he has committed a crime, he has too often proved blind to the elevated standards expected of the top law officer in the land. The improprieties are easy for the public to understand: he appeared to help friends who helped him financially...
Dukakis said Reagan and Vice President George Bush "don't understand that for working families who struggle to pay the mortgage, save for their children's education and care for their elders, there is nothing more painful than losing...
...understand why Leona Helmsley might want a $45,000 silver clock modeled after a building owned by her billionaire husband, even if you wouldn't want one yourself. What's harder to understand is why she would bother breaking the law to get it. That, in fact, is part of her lawyer's answer to official charges that the Helmsleys cheated the Government of $4 million in taxes by wrongly charging off sundry personal gewgaws as business expenses: Would people so rich risk jail for an amount so (relatively) small...