Word: understands
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Reagan began briskly. Said he: "I understand from Howard that you don't want to be reappointed." When Volcker concurred, the President started to ask the Fed chairman to think yet again. But he was interrupted by Volcker, who pulled his letter of resignation from a pocket and began to summarize its contents. As President Reagan heard that some of Volcker's reasons were personal, he declared, "I've got a policy that I never try to talk anyone out of leaving Government for personal reasons." All four men then discussed Volcker's successor and, with the Fed chairman...
...overall game plan." From the sidelines, Kenneth comments bitterly, "Basically, he didn't even want what they wanted -- the money. As many dollar bills as it would take to fill the Grand Canyon wouldn't have been enough for them. Plant morphology satisfied him. So how were they to understand one another...
Premised on the hope that "students will not only be aware of moral tradition, but will have begun to understand themselves as reasonable and moral people, who begin to think about their own choices," the Moral Reasoning Core requirement attempts to teach modes of thinking about ethics, says Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey Cox, who offers a Moral Reasoning course...
...faculty have resisted [the teaching of ethics] and that's because they either don't understand it or because they think it's a soft discipline," said Reverend Robert K. Massie, a doctoral student at the Business School...
This spring, when Herzog reciprocated by visiting Germany, von Weizsacker said, "I think we do understand those of your countrymen who have conflicting feelings at the thought of their president visiting Germany as a representative of the people of Israel...