Word: understood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...says. "With the blues, the progression is a vehicle around which you tell a story, to convey a feeling using the guitar riffs and words--tell exactly what the meaning of the so. And it's exactly the same with punk. It's simplistic, but it has to be understood that it's only a vehicle around which the real meaning of the song...
...Once a text is taken seriously, it is studied with high intensity and acquires secrecy. This contradicts with a belief that a text can be understood by all. Perhaps secrecy is nothing more than our own bewilderment projected into text," Kermode said...
...types of extracurricular activities are important in determining the concept of diversity. This is fine, but certain things must be understood. First, many minority students have jobs so they can help their families--and therefore these people cannot participate in the activities that look so good on the application. Their jobs are slighted in favour of the school newspaper, the class presidency, debating championship, et cetera...
Finally, an example of the backlash of the Bakke case was the abolishment of the Minority Review Committee, which reviewed decisions of the admissions committee not to accept Third World students. This had been the only opportunity that Third World student had to be understood on their own grounds. But despite all the trouble, minority student recruiters are still responsible for the bulk of the outreach to inner city and Third World high schools--which is why we must keep and expand our toehold...
...decimal system, each digit of a number read from right to left is understood to be multiplied by a progressively higher power of 10. Thus the number 4,932 consists of 2 multiplied by 1, plus 3 multiplied by 10, plus 9 multiplied by 10 X 10, plus 4 multiplied by 10 x 10 X 10. In the binary system, each digit of a number, again read from right to left, is multiplied by a progressively higher power of 2. Thus the binary number 11010 equals 0 times 1, plus 1 times 2, plus 0 times 2X2, plus 1 times...