Our culture of silence may be understandable in environments where the one ubiquitous defence is frontline vigilance.
In the current (wholly understandable) Bush-bashing environment, just mentioning the US elicits reactions ranging from suspicion to outrage.
Speech is understandable in quiet environments; however, in busier locations like out on a noisy street, the microphone struggles to separate speech from ambient noise.
The new focus by some auto customers on fuel economy is understandable given the current environment.
Because of this, in order to design understandable, clear and acceptable environments, designers have to increase the meaning of spaces.
Admittedly, it's tempting to fall into the trap of assuming Rodriguez's works are anti-war or pro-environment statements (understandable, given the colorations for one, but also the iconographic motifs flowers growing out of a bomb, or machine versus nature), but surface-level visuals aside, this is not the case.
To provide an understandable visualization a three-dimensional environment is proposed, in which the linked models are arranged and displayed.
In this environment, it is understandable that C.E.O.s, mindful of their shareholders and their own hefty stock-and-option packages, are reluctant to criticize the new Administration's policies, let alone Trump himself.
In this environment, it is understandable that C.E.O.s, mindful of their shareholders and their own hefty stock-and-option packages, are reluctant to criticize the new Administration's policies, let alone Trump himself.
Dan Hammer, an Agricultural and Resource Economics PhD candidate who has worked to make information about the environment accessible and understandable for journalists, has been honored with the first-ever Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award.
In this environment, it's understandable that seniors want to pull the ladder up in order to protect their benefits, just as other voters don't want to pay for any more stimulus spending, even if millions of Americans are unemployed.
