Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Starr grand jury, the White House was reportedly polling and floating trial balloons in the papers to determine what confession would fly. The truth is not what happened. It is what sells. And because Clinton is so good at selling, he has never needed truth as it is conventionally understood...
...argument over a toy car. But the court found that the police hadn't made a necessary "extra effort" to explain to a seven-year-old what his rights were. Still, even if they had illustrated with a Barney doll and all four Teletubbies, he probably would not have understood. That's what being a child means...
...dollar lower by manipulating the supply. It's the type of monetary maneuvering that doesn't mean much to most of us. Yet had the speculators won--and the game isn't over--the economic damage could have been huge, and the already wobbly U.S. stock market would have understood the true meaning of the word correction...
GEORGE BUSH CIA Building named for him. Fitting for one who needed a decoder to be understood...
...invades a tiny country, for instance, women are still more likely to dwell on the disparity in size. Men understand that, regardless of the size of the opponent, combat is combat: you detonate large bombs; you win medals; you could get killed. In that summer house, the men understood that regardless of the origin of the game, you still have to analyze the plays. You still have to keep statistics. You still have to play to win. You still have to cheat...