Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Having college-aged children has helped the lecturer understand his Harvard students, Cudmore says. "Besides being able to relate well to younger adults, I also have tremendous tenacity, and tolerance for failure--good traits for an inventor...
...what was the Reagan that "Reagan was before he blew it"? Fortunately, Garry Wills, one of the most perceptive social critics of the last two decades, has spent several years searching for answers. The result is the recently published Reagan's America: Innocents at Home, an impressive effort to understand Ronald Reagan and America's fascination with...
...found in his discussion of Reagan's days as a sports announcer. Reagan's detractors, who dismiss the president as "just an actor" and view him as no more than a tele-prompted automaton, have not looked back far enough into his past. If they did, they would better understand the man and his appeal...
Bankers reacted calmly to the speech, perhaps only because they had seen it coming. Said Rimmer De Vries, chief international economist of New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust: "The suspension of payments is not a surprise to the banks. What is difficult to understand, however, is how things could have deteriorated so quickly. Brazil has gone completely over the cliff...
...Illinois at Chicago, feels that "few researchers have looked at mental retardation in a fine-grain fashion. They haven't gone into the heads of the kids." Psychologist Bernard Rimland, of the Institute for Child Behavior Research in San Diego, notes, "It isn't surprising that we don't understand much about these aberrations. We haven't even begun to understand how the normal brain functions...