Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cases where Division I scholarship schools will attempt to blow the horn on schools like the Ivies," Penn's Jarocki says, "because of the [heavy] alumni involvement we do have." "This is a pain in the neck," Reardon says. "We've got to make darn sure alumni understand the rules and obey them...
...perhaps the performers became so confused at the inexplicable wooden signs on the walls that they forgot their other jokes. These strange-looking notices made vague references to theatricals, agents, children and pets which none of the agents, children or pets around me could understand. (There were no theatricals around to be consulted, although a hippopotamus hiding under an ash tray was also perplexed...
...understand that you are a person with athletic achievements who might be interested in Harvard University," reads a letter from Fitzsimmons, who goes on to note that "candidates should demonstrate significant achievement in academic areas...Most of our students achieve scores on [the Scholastic Aptitude Test] in the 500 range or above...
...lapses of historical memory; they are invitations to crushing bigotry. Von Weizsacker makes clear that the past--even a past as terrible as the one the play distorts--can be the foundation for a hopeful future, one free of such hate. It remains for his countrymen to learn to understand...
...Weighing the evidence, Sakharov, who was allowed to return to Moscow only two months ago, after spending seven years under virtual house arrest in the closed city of Gorky, concluded, "I don't know what Gorbachev wants personally, but there are a number of people at the top who understand that without democratization, all of his goals in the economic sphere ((and)) international sphere cannot succeed." In Washington, the Reagan Administration welcomed the Kremlin's announcement but called for the release of the remaining political prisoners and a relaxation of Soviet policy on emigration...