Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country has weighed the tragedy of Richard Nixon. One sometimes wonders if there is not another dimension to that disaster that will some day get more attention-the loss of a man to the world, by his own doing, a man who understood the men, the ingredients, the glory, the brutality, the action and reaction of power as well as anyone else of our time...
...disease detectives have isolated the bacterium-like organism that causes Legionnaires' disease. But if this dangerous form of pneumonia, which is now suspected of afflicting up to 45,000 people a year in the U.S. alone and requires treatment with the antibiotic erythromycin, is ever to be fully understood, researchers must know where the as yet unnamed infecting agent usually lives and how it is transmitted to humans...
...still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...
...politics and went about their job of urging the nation to give up cigarettes. But when the new report on "tolerable" cigarette smoking hit the front pages, both an alarmed Surgeon General and Gori's boss at NCI went public to repudiate Gori and make sure everyone understood that cigarette smoking was still not considered safe. The federal antismoking campaign thus rolled on, expecting an extra $10 million from Carter's new budget...
...government was willing or able to deliver. Even though he acted in good faith, the Foreign Minister may have misinterpreted Begin's intentions or miscalculated the new Premier's flexibility. Beyond that, it now seems clear that, when they finally met, Begin and Sadat neither liked nor understood each other. Right from the beginning the misunderstandings were apparent. Sadat, for example, said in Jerusalem that the last Israeli settlement in the Sinai should determine the Israeli border of the buffer zone. The Begin government interpreted this, or chose to interpret it, as a green light to expand...