Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...solving them can be difficult. City bureaucracy often has a life of its own, with each city agency performing its own particular function in its own particular way. An outsider trying to get anything done in a city government must clear a path through an administrative jungle simply to understand what is going...
...think that an outsider's eye is always more apt to see things that the insider doesn't notice anymore," she says, adding that it was only through politics that she was able to understand the city's problems...
...scattered over the salt wastes of the Dead Sea to represent millions of aborted fetuses. Koop, who became an evangelical Presbyterian in his 30s, explains his views against abortion and against withholding food and medical care from congenitally deformed newborns simply: "If you had led my life, you would understand." As a pediatric surgeon for 33 years, Koop saved many ^ babies no bigger than his hand. In the course of treating 100,000 patients, Koop saw many so-called difficult cases become happy and productive children. One of these was Paul Sweeney, born in 1965 with twisted intestines, facial deformities...
...pretty desiccated. You've got to hang around with your kids." Yet hanging-around time is the first thing to go. The very culture of children, of freedom and fantasy and kids teaching kids to play jacks, is collapsing under the weight of hectic family schedules. "Kids understand that they are being cheated out of childhood," says Edward Zigler at Yale. "Eight-year-olds are taking care of three-year-olds. We're seeing depression in children. We never thought we'd see that 35 years ago. There is a sense that adults don't care about them...
American schools should establish clear academic aims for students and teachers, Sizer said. "Schools have to have visible goals," he said. "That is, goals that kids can understand...