Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are important signs the world is comingto its collective senses," Dukakis said. "We're[the U.S.] beginning to understand we can'toperate like a lonesome cowboy anymore...
Wisecarver said she decided to write to Bork because "he's kind of quiet." She said she supports his nomination and does not understand what all the fuss is about...
...ninth grader said she is anxious for areply to her letter but would understand if shedid not get one. "They're busy and all," she said...
...impasse appeared Tuesday night as the two delegations were enjoying a picnic supper (hamburgers, fried chicken, baked beans) on a 65-ft. barge cruising down the Potomac. National Security Adviser Frank Carlucci drew Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh aside. Said Carlucci: "Best I can understand it, we do the same thing with warheads you do." Replied Bessmertnykh: "Yes, that's right...
...writing as in real estate, the operating word is location. Readers like to travel, to escape to a setting, preferably hot, sticky and fatally glamorous. Certain television producers understand this instinctively, which is why Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas do not star in a show called Toronto Vice. Canada's rising cosmopolis may suggest a bright promise of public responsibility and efficiency, but it is Miami whose hard-edged pastels define the pitiless sensuality...