Word: understands
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...Canada. Two types of condoms, LifeStyles Extra Strength with Nonoxynol-9 (a spermicide) and LifeStyles Nuda Plus, flunked the test 10% of the time. Consumer Reports labeled many of the samples "grossly defective." A spokesman for their manufacturer, Ansell Inc. of Dothan, Ala., declared, "Consumer Reports does not understand condoms." As for the Nonoxynol-9 product, the company said that the magazine's testers were using condoms that Ansell had voluntarily recalled because of defects...
These gains in rote learning are offset by a worrisome inability to reason effectively. More than 60% of all high school students cannot understand the material they read, including newspaper stories or topics they study in class. Fully a fourth of all 13-year-olds fail to grasp the principles of basic math. That problem is apparently not remedied in high school, where almost half of all students are unable to solve problems using decimals, percentages, basic geometry or algebra...
...organizations as the Peace Corps and VISTA, or help them find nonmilitary assistance for college. Others try to show those intent on military careers exactly what they are getting into. Many do all three. Says Lou Ann Merkle of the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors in Philadelphia: "We who understand the implications of enlisting in the armed forces have a responsibility to help young people understand them also...
...sort of politicos he once disdained backed his campaign for the chairmanship, swayed by his promise to build a no-nonsense organization that could provide Democratic office seekers with workers, polltakers and money. Says Brown, 50, whose father Edmund was also a two-term Governor of California: "I understand politics. I've been around it since the day I was born...
...People need to understand what the problems are," said Francis H. Matthews, Jr., a senior on the executive board of the school's Black Student Union...