Word: marvell
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...whole incident was very puzzling. My first reaction was to laugh and marvel at the powers of electronic communication. E-mail has brought people closer to one another than ever before; anyone can instantaneously connect with virtually anyone else on the globe. Inexpensive and efficient, e-mail has shrunk the world even further. Although networks often have their share of logistical problems (as we at Harvard know well), the network's record is still invariably better than that of the post office...
...last half of the second act, when it slowly dawns on the main doctor treating him that George is recovering faster than he has been letting on. It is a tribute to Hawthorne's acting ability that the audience guesses this just far enough ahead of the doctor to marvel at the subtlety of Bennett's language. This revelation that there are levels to his madness makes one of George's remarks all the more affecting. When someone comments that the King seems more like himself, George replies...
Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus JohnKenneth Galbraith called the debate "a marvel ofincoherence...
Most of all, it was time to enjoy the game of basketball at its best. It was time to live in Boston and marvel at the awesome ability of the larger-than-life athletes...
Watch a giant takeover brawl unfold before your eyes! Marvel at the clash of colossal egos! Gasp at the gyrating stock prices! Not since the 1980s has Wall Street so unabashedly savored a fight as it did the one that broke out last week for filmmaker Paramount Communications. With a bid from Viacom Inc. valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back...