The notion that Connecticut investment officials didn't understand that firms like Forstmann take real risks for the possibility of big gains belies credulity.
One senior House GOP aide quipped that many rank and file members who criticized Boehner's negotiation strategy didn't understand that his effort would have given them some political cover at a time when Congress' ratings are at rock bottom.
And a lot of people didn't understand that bankruptcy isn't the end of the line.
If any of the other teams didn't understand that before, surely they do now.
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Clinton just stepped through a racial minefield and just didn't understand that where they were stepping and how their comments would resonate in the black community?
And you know, my parents would always say, no, you should be proud of who you are, and you know, I didn't understand that at that time.
And about 40% didn't understand that when an app was allowed to get personal data, it could actually transfer that data out of Facebook and store it elsewhere.
"The newness of this entire category meant consumers didn't understand it and even us, as the industry leaders, we realised that we didn't understand it yet, " says Travis Bogard, head of product management.
That didn't stop investors from buying what they didn't understand, nor did it stop brokers from selling products that were beyond their comprehension.
People didn't yet understand or believe that the virus couldn't be spread by casual contact.
Lawyers for the prosecution said Azizan didn't understand the question and that there was confusion about timing.
The two 5-year-olds, I didn't think they would understand what that meant anyway.
"I didn't understand for a long time that having something of quality takes getting in the right line, " says Jerry L. Coben, a Los Angeles attorney who collects works on paper.
The candidate had to be warned by his staff to stop telling everyone that he didn't understand economics.
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First, the critics said that Gonzales didn't understand the difference between being the president's personal lawyer and being attorney general.
The movie studio boss walked out on a screening and later bragged that he didn't understand the film he had financed.
Some were afraid of Mr. Hollande's favoring of the public sector and a general perception that he didn't understand the private sector.
He says his wife didn't know "how to understand" that he was suffering from a mental disorder and that is why she decided to leave him.
And we also made sure that consumers are treated more fairly -- because part of what happened in this financial crisis was people were getting mortgages that they didn't understand.
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He was always willing to speak with us when we called to invite him to a Focus Group or to ask him silly questions about Technology that we didn't understand.
We quickly realized that technically what we had engineered was out of the reach of most individuals and many nonprofits and that most didn't understand the basic game-theory of crowd-sourced fund raising.
When Berkowitz accused Skilling of using Enron's reserve accounts as a financial cookie jar to fabricate the company's earnings, Skilling told the prosecutor that he didn't understand the financial documents he was trying to characterize.
We have heard from thousands of student loan borrowers who tell us that they simply didn't understand what they were signing up for.
Even the president Thabo Mbeki lashed out in a public address, saying that the team didn't understand what the youth of 1976 had set in motion, what they had achieved.
They also didn't really understand the nature of the mortgages that they were issuing and the degree to which falling house prices would translate into very large delinquency and default rates on those mortgages.
The plane plunged 38, 000 feet in just three minutes and 30 seconds but the recording -- as reported in the book -- illustrates that the crew didn't understand why the plane was not responding.
Their parents didn't understand their music either, and didn't support their music, and they thought that, oh, my goodness, why is my daughter gyrating like that and started doing the twist.
Specifically, he seemed like someone of another culture that I didn't know or understand.
"I can say that about 60% of the birth parents that I spoke to didn't understand adoption, " said Luzinda.
The Chinese understand that the U.S. didn't do QE2 to hurt their economies.
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