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When the US cut off trade with Iran, even close allies were only too ready to intensify theirs; when Germany recalled its ambassador from Tehran because Iran’s leaders had been implicated in a murder plot, some European partners grasped this opportunity to promote their business ties with Iran at Germany’s expense.

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It also helped me to avoid the trap people in my profession sometimes fall into when trying to innovate, where we are quick to apply a technology before we've firmly grasped the problem at hand.

A student said, "This class felt like sitting in a bar with a really smart friend who's explaining something you haven't grasped, but are about to."

I thought I couldn't believe in StoryCorps any more deeply than I did, but it was at that moment that I fully and viscerally grasped the importance of making these recordings.

And they've grasped basic arithmetic, keeping track of the relative amounts of fruit in two baskets after multiple changes.

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