While no one can consistently predict where the overall economy is going, understanding the drivers (interest rates, inflation, unemployment, consumer indebtedness, currency values) goes a long way toward making sound decisions about how manage your business.
His method is not only to attempt to understand the world, but to dramatise the ways we might go about understanding it.
As Dr. Pronovost explained, medical research must go beyond understanding the biology of disease and devising effective therapies.
But scientists still have a long way to go in understanding the ways that one of life's most pleasurable activities can derail.
She said: "This auction prize shows that Hollywood has a long way to go in understanding the diversity problem it faces.
If they don't want to go, be understanding.
Science has a long way to go in understanding how music works on the brain.
They show how far we have to go in understanding the nature of the problem and the best ways to prevent it.
His paraphrase, perilously close to his San Francisco linkage between religious belief and economic distress, shows how far he had to go in understanding Middle America.
This is a clear indication that while Senate Democrats believe themselves to be great legislators they have far to go in understanding the reality of their political future.
