Word: pondered
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...party is ignoring the moderates. On important issues like education and the environment, conservatives are running the show, Jeffords warned, and if Bush didn't move to the center, he would be a one-term President. "I hear you, I hear you," Bush answered. Jeffords promised to ponder, but Bush suspected the decision had been made. "I don't think I was very persuasive," the President told Lott afterward...
Scientists' lack of wisdom and certainty concerning global warming and our planet's future are exemplified by this ironic quote from your report: "Global warming could, paradoxically, throw the planet into another Ice Age." These doom-and-gloomers confuse even themselves. Perhaps these alarmists should ponder the idea that global climatic fluctuations are out of our control and that the God who has created the earth will also nourish it and sustain it. GARY HAERTEL Sussex...
CONVICTED. JULIE PONDER, 40, and CONNELL WATKINS, 54; of reckless child abuse; in Golden, Colo. The two therapists had led the "rebirthing" session of Candace Newmaker, 10, which involved wrapping the girl in a flannel sheet and forcing her to emerge from it. Though the child repeatedly cried for help, she was not released and died of asphyxiation...
...similar soothing sense of color continues throughout the exhibit, and the viewer may well blissfully ponder Weil’s celebration of cultural heritage before realizing the juxtaposition between subject matter and color. In the “Memories and Dreams” catalogue, Weil constantly asserts his “atheistic philosophy,” where he distinctly separates culture from religion and states that he has no interest in religious ritual or faith...
...hour news, round-the-clock cable stations and the Internet, international diplomacy becomes a far trickier proposition. I'm sure Colin Powell envies the days of carrier-pigeon diplomacy, when negotiators had days or weeks to ponder the nuances of a single sentence...