Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...couldn't understand how it was that Lee could claim ignorance of the military's policy when he presided over debate on that very issue...
...University, an individual joins a community ideally characterized by free expression, free inquiry, intellectual honesty, respect for the dignity of others, and openness to constructive change." I suspect that we all kind of agree with this, but after Sunday night's meeting, I wonder if we all really understand the implications of this contract. Civil disobedience on the steps of University Hall or anywhere alse is valid--but civil disobedience with the intent to disrupt, to not allow someone else to speak--in effect, to silence, runs utterly counter to these freedoms, these rights...
...beginning the war of words and actions against any oil company that doesn't understand its responsibility to protect the environment," said Massachusetts state Sen. Carol Amick (D-Bedford) at a boycott rally in Boston...
...families were there to teach kids that there are certain boundaries," he recalls. "Now there is no discipline in their lives. Kids' lives are like basketball played without lines." He believes Carrera's approach holds promise. "By keeping these kids on a clear education track, by having them understand the importance of delaying pregnancy and by including parents, Mike is doing what others aren't," he says...
Before you become alarmed, however, you should understand that this was a close encounter only in a relative sense. At its closest, the asteroid was about 450,000 miles away, roughly twice the distance between the earth and the moon. Still, in cosmic terms it was virtually a direct hit. No asteroid has been sighted so near since 1937, when Hermes, a minor planet nearly half a mile in diameter, passed by at about the same distance...