Word: ponderance
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart, the movie is about family betrayal, the corporate torture of two insiders (Wigand at Brown & Williamson, Bergman at CBS) by the people they worked for and with. Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness. A change in the corporate weather, and the most valued employee is suddenly expendable--an outsider. Do you fight to get back in? Or plot, with only your rancorous conscience as a guide, how to survive, alone, in the cold...
...stoic role on the ice fits his interests off it. Mark by far is the most pensive of his brothers--he is a math concentrator who likes to ponder "arbitrary facts of existence...
Most Harvard students are forced to only ponder the lifeboat dilemma in Professor of Government Michael Sandel's Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice...
...deadlock has sent the peace deal's authors, Britain and the Republic of Ireland, back to the drawing board. Prime Minister Blair and Ireland's Taoiseach (prime minister) Bertie Ahearn will meet next week to ponder a way forward in a peace process that crashed because neither side could muster the trust to take the necessary political risks. The only smiles in Northern Ireland Thursday will be on the faces of the hard men of all stripes who prefer to let their weapons do the negotiating...
...last two decades of his life. Over that latter span, he published only Across the River and Into the Trees (1950) and The Old Man and the Sea (1952). Thanks to the piles of manuscripts, in varying stages of completion, that he left behind for his estate to ponder, four new Hemingways appeared after his death: A Moveable Feast (1964), Islands in the Stream (1970), The Dangerous Summer (1985) and The Garden of Eden...