Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...constantly surprises me with his knowledge and his presence on the court," Phillips said. "He has the exceptional ability to understand the flow of the game and make court decisions one would not expect from a freshman...
Gates, an undergraduate at Yale from 1969 to 1973, says that he and many other scholars in the field were influenced by the historian Arthur Schomburg's reminder that "before we can progress, we have to understand our past." History was therefore the preoccupation of the first phase of Afro-American studies, he argues...
...just be diplomats having "full and frank discussions" during this week's demi-summit. Like a monk touring Las Vegas to understand what the fuss over sin is about, Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev will travel to the mountaintop of conspicuous consumption and wretched excess: Trump Tower...
...like the Soviet Union, possess a war economy, centered on a military-industrial complex, with a variety of inefficient producers protected by their cozy relations with the armed forces. Yet war as we understand it is becoming obsolete. Clearly, much of Gorbachev's foreign and domestic policies are designed to reform the Soviet economy into a more rational and competitive one. His challenge is also ours. The question we must ask ourselves is this: can America survive in the world after...
...progress toward performing significant technological research in orbit been very swift. The shuttle itself may not be the optimal vehicle when war is no longer a significant threat. As James Bamford, author of "The Puzzle Palace" noted in Monday's Christian Science Monitor, "Nobody seems to understand that the principle reason for the shuttle program was servicing and repairing spy satellites." Even now, it might pay to begin concentrating on single-launch rockets coupled to a space laboratory, as the Soviets have done...