Word: pondered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Rodriguez begins to ponder the Four Seasons notepad sitting in front of him and, all of a sudden, begins to scribble furiously...
...little, too late, though, as Harvard could only ponder its 11-5 loss and focus on improving in the future...
Amidst the rush of our workaday lives, many of us lack the time to ponder exactly what trade is and why it benefits us. Yet, the answer is short and sweet. Trade means voluntary exchange between human beings, where "exchange" is meant in the broadest possible sense. Economists are usually interested in the kind of exchange that involves goods, services, currency and financial assets. Nonetheless, the logic of these "economic" exchanges is identical to the logic of every kind of nonviolent social interaction...
...Pretoria trial offers an opportunity to ponder the relationship between science and medicine on the one hand and markets and profit on the other. Rather than demonizing individual corporations or getting stuck on the mantras of intellectual property, it has become imperative to see the bigger picture. Because in that bigger picture, millions of people are dying every year of a treatable disease. And there's nothing inevitable about their deaths; they are a product of our cultural choices...
...Gabby wanders the beautiful countryside for several silent pages until he can take no more. Slowly he plunges a pair of scissors into his soft head so that the stuffing spills out. The Millionaire touch of exquisite ghastliness comes when this fails to kill, and instead leaves him to ponder life as a "soulless monster." Thankfully, in an oddly uplifting ending, the little girl sews him up and puts him to bed with forgiveness...