Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government authority and a massacre in Tiananmen Square. Deng and Li Peng would not risk anarchy, so they called in the military, but at least initially were hesitant to give it a free hand. That left it to the soldiers, their trucks blocked by mobs of pleading countrymen, to ponder another saying of Mao's: "Whoever suppresses the students will come to no good...
...just got tenser. But now, with my biology final over and my social studies paper handed in, I have allotted 25 minutes to ponder this predicament. And I've reached a conclusion: it's not my fault; and if you're tense, it's not your fault either...
...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...
...victim lies in a coma, experts ponder the causes of the latest source of urban fear: "wilding" sprees by alienated youths. -- On defense spending, the contras and gun control, George Bush is steering off the Reagan road. -- Inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court, fierce arguments on a crucial abortion case. -- Spotlight on the working wives of Capitol Hill...
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...