Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lottery systems that as sign the rooms to the students are likewise vastly different. Yale's system is relatively simple, while Columbia students say that they have spent years unsuccessfully trying to understand their school's baffling system...
...present developments in the U.S. -- on which naturally one can make no judgment -- weaken the Administration and the President, that would be bad for everybody, for the U.S. and the free world. We need a strong U.S. Administration, one open to dialogue. So we would regret, and fail to understand, that impassioned reactions should put in question the authority of the Administration. Still, I am confident in President Reagan's ability to overcome these difficulties...
...time of the year when it feels as though spring is a snail, unhurried, tardy, five stops out of town and stalled on the track, a substantial number of the citizenry can be found impatiently poring over seed catalogs. Nurserymen understand this, and have long since calculated that the darker the day, the more riotous the color of their offerings, the bigger the sale. But it was not until some years ago that flower shows began to move out ahead of the gardening season, nosing their exhibition dates ever closer to the shank of winter. Improvements on the technique...
...afternoon to plot and gossip on Tamarisk Beach are distracted by the dark-eyed, full- breasted young woman in the skimpy yellow bathing suit. She is wooed by men who want not only to possess but to politicize her as well. After hearing Hillela admit that she does not understand anything that she has not directly experienced, a high-ranking ANC official says, "Someone needs to take you in hand, my girl. You are not a fully conscious being...
...cops contended with the rowdies. Police checked hotel lobbies and pool decks, carting off underage drinkers. But mostly the officers went easy, tolerating all but the nastiest drunks and even accepting credit cards for bond and payment of minor fines. "We're not hostile," observed Chief Ed Sanders. "We understand they're down here to have a good time." Agreed Justice of the Peace Robert Tenison, who was assessing mostly $70 disorderly-conduct fines rather than the maximum $200: "These are college kids. People are willing to forgive...