Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anything people don't like about an administration can be used against the vice president, said Sears. But the Dukakis campaign failed to make Bush defend himself on issues such as the homeless, because "Mr. Dukakis didn't seem to understand that you could do these things," said Sears...
...think we were getting very mixed signals from the dean's office," says one junior professor who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "With this abolishment of the Graustein chart we were told that we no longer had to worry about slots. But I understand that the [senior faculty who voted against Boone] thought that there were indeed a limited number of slots and that to promote him would take away from future slots...
Most faculty interviewed say that while department heads are comfortable with the changes, other professors don't yet understand how the new system works. And many add that they are hesitant about its implications...
...Psychology Department head Brendan A. Maher says the jury is still out on the new system. "I suspect it will take a while to understand what all this means. When the old system's been around for so long, it becomes ingrained in people's consciousness...
...addition, Stoll points out that the viruscontained fake code that sent programmers tryingto understand the virus on wild goose chases...