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Word: understands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...suggesting that infants understand what it means to be a baseball fan. Of course they...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Baseball: A Real Sport for Real People | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...being a scientist at a predominantly liberal arts college. The author wrote, "On the rare occasions when I do speak from my knowledge of engineering, there is a language barrier. I can't talk mathematics to the people in my core classes because most of them don't understand...

Author: By Andrea M. Shlipak, | Title: Revenge of the Nerds: Encouraging Science | 4/6/1988 | See Source »

...merely instrumental towards attacking the clubs' "real elitism." This analysis is sexist; it doesn't take women's rights as seriously as those of Blacks and other groups which have suffered from discrimination in this country. Imagine the outcry if final club members were to urge us to understand why white people want to be in a club with only whites and that Blacks should build their own clubs--as people have argued with women. Schkolnick's strike against the clubs' gender elitism must be recognized as a forceful blow in a battle to destroy the clubs' overall elitism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Battling Elitism | 4/4/1988 | See Source »

...knowledge and common sense about electricity to diagnose any problem put before it. At Xerox and elsewhere, other scientists are examining the very foundations of artificial intelligence. Their aim: a theory that will enable them to build computers that can step outside the limits of a specific expertise and understand the nature and context of the problems they are confronting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Putting Knowledge to Work | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

...stress fractures of foot and leg bones. Many of the syndromes that plague dancers and musicians are so subtle that they go unrecognized. Observes Dr. Alan Lockwood, who started the University of Texas clinic in Houston: "Many physicians who don't see performing artists regularly just don't understand the demands placed on their bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: The Oh-So-Not-So-Prime Players | 3/28/1988 | See Source »

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