"He understands time," said Mark McKinnon, who was a media adviser to Bush during the campaign.
She told the father that he needed to understand: time with his son was limited, and the young man was going to need his father's help getting through it.
He understood that time for personal reflection and the importance of students' making vital connections between their lives in school and the world in which they lived were the foundation for imaginative and innovative schooling.
The university insists that Mr. Chen's law school fellowship was always meant to be for one year, and those who have worked closely with him in recent months said he understood the time limitations of a financial arrangement that even Mr. Chen acknowledged was extremely generous.
And, earlier than most, he understood that time and information meant money, and he pulled out all the stops to remain in constant contact with associates across Europe.
Mark Glaser, executive editor of PBS MediaShift, who has written extensively on new media, said he understood The Times's decision to say, "We don't talk about it until we're finished".
"They didn't understand time frames," he said.
This is how we understand time to work.
He understood it was time to change.
You just need to understand, even vaguely, Harrison's breakthrough: he understood that measuring time accurately was the key, while leading scientists of the day were certain that astronomy held the answer.
In a letter to the court this month, the solicitor general, Donald B. Verrilli Jr., wrote that he understood that the time allotted to the threshold issue "could be expanded to 90 minutes".
