Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also did not understand that the main goal of the Senior Gift for Undergraduate Education is to achieve the highest possible participation rate, not the highest dollar amount. Thus, every gift to SGUE is significant because every gift is a symbol of support for all the opportunities we have been offered in the last four years...
IGNORE THEM, AND MAYBE THEY'LL GO AWAY. Soviet employees are a bit lackadaisical when it comes to customer relations. Said a U.S. executive: "The phone would ring, and our Soviet managers wouldn't answer it. They'd pick up the receiver and hang up. And they didn't understand about taking messages. I would come back to the office, and they'd say, 'Someone called.' I've finally got them to take a number...
...kept going over these facts, trying to understand something that has been at the heart of unending arguments in Moscow: Had the provinces come to life, or were they still sleeping? I made a discovery that surprised me: public life was bubbling along here. They were not just putting up houses -- new people were growing...
...greatest brake on perestroika is not the apparatus here," said the soft-spoken Karpov. "It comes from the people. They still do not understand that they now have the responsibility to make decisions for themselves. They want us to bring about democratization for them...
They threw themselves on manuscripts, telephone numbers, addresses, receipts from Parisian dry cleaners. My wife, corrupted by Western notions about personal inviolability, couldn't understand for the life of her what business CUSTOMS had with her intimate correspondence and assorted panties and bras. She told the customs officers in some detail what she thought of them, and they, huffing dolefully, continued to read our personal papers: "Call Zhenya in the morning . . . don't forget about Yura . . . Sima . . . Sonya ; . . . Lyusya . . . In the evening -- 157-29-09 . . ." My wife didn't let up. I was bored. Why were they doing all this...