Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country that speaks in the same breath of the right to liberty and the right to life, this new approach raises old, complicated questions. How much deviation in behavior ought a free society tolerate? Is it rational to enshrine the liberty of those so irrational they cannot understand the nature of their rights? Is it not more humane -- indeed, is it not morally required -- to come to the aid of people who are suffering, no matter their resistance...
...Pont and announced that he was running for President, he had to be kidding. When even the urbane Robert Dole contrasts his plebeian Kansas roots with the preppie background of the front runner, George Bush, a du Pont of Delaware hasn't got a chance. What skeptics do not understand is that, in his own mind, Pete du Pont is a self-made man, one who rebelled against his family tradition by going to law school and then into politics...
Strange, wonderful system that somehow brushes the most humble. Does Jesse Jackson understand the deep farm problems, the complicated roots of small-town deprivation? His own background is so very distant. But he understands want and being left out. We will know before long whether that is enough to link the mighty White House to the tiny town of Greenfield in the history books yet to be written...
Almost too late, Assad realized that Iran and Hizballah posed a threat to Syria's position in Lebanon. He also came to understand that an Islamic stronghold in Lebanon might eventually undermine Assad's own secular Baath ; Party government in Damascus. In 1984 Assad threw his support to Amal, the mainstream Lebanese Shi'ite organization and militia led by Nabih Berri, but Hizballah's influence continued to spread. One reason Assad sent his army into West Beirut in February was to bring the Iranians to heel...
...shops. Waiters bring the fixings right to the table. An enterprising service called Home Blow Couriers even offers free delivery of drug orders in excess of $12.50. Small wonder that youthful "hash tourists," especially from West Germany, flock to Amsterdam's Dam Square, or that visitors who do not understand Dutch occasionally experience strange feelings from the marijuana pastries they unknowingly eat in coffee shops...