Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic depiction of punk life, Sid and Nancy, including a fantasy sequence that Cox could sue him for if scenes were copyrighted. He needn't bother, however, since Lowenstein never even approaches the level of intelligence and cohesiveness that made Cox's movie so compelling. Lowenstein doesn't understand that the way to portray chaos and boredom is not to be chaotic and boring...
...understand what would make her mother do this," said LaLonde in the interview...
...became important leaders in their own right. Among them: Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and later head of the World Bank; Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; and Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who co-founded Litton Industries. Yet none of them ever claimed to understand the man they always addressed as Mr. Ford. When he died last week of complications from pneumonia in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he was still unfathomable...
...chickens and ducks, and open-air markets are overflowing with fresh vegetables. But if even the casual visitor to China in recent years could see that agricultural sufficiency had come at last to a country historically plagued by famine, few Westerners truly appreciate the magnitude of that achievement or understand how it came about. Under Deng Xiaoping's regime, the Chinese have become the most efficient farmers in the world in terms of output per acre. They feed more than a billion people, or 22% of the globe's population, on only 7% of its arable land...
Eileen M. Wingate, supervisor for cashdisbursements, who is undecided on the union, saysthe administration did not push the anti-unionparty-line on supervisors, but rather helpedsupervisors understand the union's right to talkwith employees. "I came out of the meeting feelingour management is very supportive of the staffknowing the issues," she said...