Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...yesterday's speech, he blasted "loosening" of social morals and the spread of egoism. Kadar said hard times were ahead and asked his countrymen to understand that recently imposed austerity measures were necessary...
Unlike Alice Mellings in The Good Terrorist, however, Harriet comes to understand her mistakes. Children are a "challenge to destiny", a contract not to be entered into hastily. Lessing makes the point that that the profligate mating of David and Harriet's marriage was as wasteful as the excesses of the flower children...
That may be an understatement. Immunologist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology is certain that the lymphokines discovered so far are "just the tip of the iceberg" and that more subcategories of T cells will be found. He emphasizes that scientists do not yet fully understand, among other things, how B and T cells differentiate, and how the immune system's genes are turned on and off at different times. "In the truest sense," he says, "immunology is just in its youth." Still, says Sherwin, "there's an enormous amount we know now that we didn't know...
Legend has it, Herschbach adds, that Kirkland once offered a seminar on football--for credit. "You have to understand, I'm not vouching for it," he says...
...Harvard really wanted to put down the campaign it would need more than a few figures and one energetic director. So many disparate figures were tossed around by each side that it was hard enough to understand them, much less compare them...