Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prince declined to call the F-15 issue a test of U.S. reliability as an ally, but he did note the "mutual interests" of the two countries. "We believe we have legitimate defense requirements. We expect that these requirements will be accepted and understood by all our friends, especially the U.S., with which we have longstanding traditional relations, always based on the mutual interests of the two countries. Frankly, a positive attitude by the American Congress toward the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia will be regarded as proof of the continuity and strengthening of relations between...
...plea and its consequences, regarding the yearlong spree of .44-cal. shootings that left six victims dead, seven wounded, and made Son of Sam a watchword of terror in New York City. Once the questioning was over, Justice Corso had established that the quiet former postal clerk understood the charges, and knew that what he had done was wrong. He then accepted the defendant's plea on the first of six counts of second-degree murder: guilty...
...particular words were meant to be, and I am sure were understood by the judges and attorneys present, as my feeble attempts at humorous asides...
Gardner poses the questions well enough. Though he uses the word sparingly, he diagones the contemporary sickness of the arts as decadence. Authors strive for texture, not content; they create characters to be tinkered with, not to be understood; their books foster self-hatred. Gardner's criticism of his colleagues is the most valuable part of On Moral Fiction. He deftly shows what authors like Vonnegut and Heller lack, entertaining as they are. We may be unable to swallow in the abstract the statement that the missing quality is "love," or "morality"; but leaving aside these culturally ambiguous, exhausted words...
...very well understood by the administration that whenever the students are polled about how well they like their departments, how good is the teaching, there's a very, very noticeable relationship between size of department and student contentment. Departments like Geology and Astronomy, for example, are very, very well thought of by the undergraduate majors. Then you measure that against English, Economics, Government, History and so on, the warhorse fields...You finally have a very, very uneven balance which can't be totally rectified by having somewhat larger staffs in the more popular department...