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...legislative branches of the marriage. "When you get home at 8:30, the last thing you want to do is get into business." It is equally unlikely that Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Wendy Gramm and her husband Senator Phil Gramm, famed for the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit limits, ponder the line-item veto during their off hours...
While cleanup crews and local fishermen fight to contain the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Exxon faces mounting outrage over its role in the tragic episode, while policymakers ponder how to make sure it can never happen again. -- Resentful of international pressure, Brazil unveils a plan to help save the Amazon. See ENVIRONMENT...
...have actually come up with more than 500 possible go-betweens. Sometimes I sit up late at night, eat pretzels, drink Cream Soda and allow my mind to ponder the outer limits of the English language...
...because there was much to ponder, and much of it good. America's friends, allies, trading partners and imitators in the region are thriving. Capitalism has boomed, and democracy has made tenuous but still significant progress. Meanwhile, America's onetime enemies are either realigning or undergoing a potentially millennial transformation, or both. In China "modernization" is a euphemism for de-communization. Viet Nam is pulling its troops out of Kampuchea and liberalizing its joint-venture laws to permit greater ownership by foreign investors. Even the hermit tyranny of North Korea has agreed to cooperate with a Seoul businessman...
...trial also gives us a chance to ponder the consequences our society must face if proper action is not taken...