Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although drugs have been used for decades to fight mental illness, scientists have not really understood how they worked. Now all that is changing. A miraculous pharmacopoeia is being explored to deal with every kind of ailment in the mind and body. Not too far off may be tailor-made drugs that will lull insomniacs into peaceful sleep, dull the throbbing of pain, organize a schizophrenic's thoughts and perhaps even simulate the pleasures...
...Ohio's exasperation with the environmental protection bureaucracy in California was surely understood by executives at many other companies, where "the high cost of Government regulation" has become one of the most cited sources of corporate angst. How steep is the price of meeting the proliferating demands and standards imposed by regulators? Estimates of the annual cost of federal regulation alone to U.S. industry have ranged from $79 billion a year (by Republican Economist Murray Weidenbaum) to $135 billion (by the Office of Management and Budget). Some Congressmen have tossed off estimates of $150 billion or more...
Akins charged that the U.S. had not really understood the causes of the Iranian revolution. Said he: "There were only two issues. They weren't land reform; you talk to Iranians about land reform and they laugh at you. They weren't women's rights, rights of minorities, all the things that appeared in the American press. One issue was corruption: that included the military expenditures, which were enormous, and the grandiose industrial developments. The other was civil rights: the fact that people were arrested, murdered, tortured, and disappeared, tens of thousands of them...
...less complex and the musicians less literate, when he would teach each player his part by rote--he said that that music swung more than written music ever could. At its best, this band is free and sensitive; Mingus's rhythms and harmonies are felt as well as understood. At times, the sound is thick with instruments, over-reaching, trying to do so much; the disc's 56 minutes of playing time suggest that both players and leader sensed the importance of getting out as much of this music as was humanly possible...
...People cheered really hard for us at the Ivy League meet, because they understood our situation," Johnson said...