Word: understands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have someone in our background who picked crops," said Raza member and fast participant Rudy Ruiz '89."That's what Mexican-Americans did in thiscountry. We understand the hardship of peoplesuffering...
Having spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning for one of Kennedy's opponents (State Rep. Tom Gallagher, who dropped out of the race in late June), I failed to understand why the electorate could have chosen style over substance. Besides Gallagher, with his passionate commitment and coherent socialist analysis, there was George Bachrach, as shrewd and capable a politician as can be found in Massachusetts, and Mel King, a stern but enormously popular activist of longstanding in Boston politics...
Morris Nagger does not understand why many Boston area shoppers are afraid to enter Central Square. "I'm not scared here at all, but when I go to Harvard Square, the punk hangout of Massachusetts, then I worry," says Nagger...
...first stop of the day, Dukakis did not repeat the "I am a liberal" statement he made Sunday after dodging the label for months. But he later cloaked himself in the "liberal tradition of great presidents" as he made his way through California, and said Bush doesn't understand "the tradition of being on the side of working families...
...Parisian dairy-store owner, Allais first earned an engineering degree but switched to economics after witnessing the spectacle of the Great Depression. "In 1933 I was in the U.S., which was then a graveyard of factories," he says. "I needed to understand why." After distinguishing himself as an economics student at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris, Allais worked for seven years in the French mine administration and in 1944 became a professor at his alma mater...