Word: understands
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There are two fundamental problems with SWAT. First, that they have singled out the Fly Club. I understand they have done this because the Fly has the closest ties with Harvard which makes legal action easier, but stopping one club on the basis of association with Harvard does not stop the others. My second problem is with the acronym for Stop Withholding Access Today. "SWAT" seems to have been chosen for the Fly, "SWAT the Spee" is nonsensical. The acronym also implies destruction of the clubs. While some people may want this, I think there is very little legal grounds...
...moment the light bulb goes on -- that, say teachers, is what they live for. That is why they are teachers and not plumbers or investment bankers. The look in a young person's eye: I got it! I understand! In the average school year there may be only a handful of such moments, but to a teacher they are unforgettable...
...conference in Constantinople on "The Cultures of the Black Sea Shores in the Middle Ages," Pavic reveals, several scholars of the Khazar question attempted to pool their separated understandings of the Khazars. These scholars are the last heroes of the Dictionary, and, like their medieval predecessors, their desire to understand the Khazars leads them across cultural boundaries. The scholars' attempt to bring different traditions together is relevant to the 20th century Middle East. As Pavic's Dictionary chronicles the assimilation of the Khazars and their confrontations with other cultures, Pavic seems to plead for unity in the Middle East without...
When the system managers, did arrive, they found that the virus program was written in a secret code so that they were not able to understand it. The process of decoding the program took hours of valuable time...
After they had finally decoded the virus and began trying to interpret the program, it became apparent that Morris had included fake instruction sequences--portions of the program which would never be executed--to lead them on wild goose chases in their attempts to understand the operation of the program...