Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While union activists ponder their strategy, the regime has been picking off key members of the underground. Days before the papal visit, security police rounded up ten Solidarity workers in Cracow; most had been involved in running illegal presses. Some church leaders have even begun to question whether it would not be better to close the Solidarity chapter in Poland's history and move on. Says Father Piasecki: "The underground? Who are they? What is their program? How do they plan to carry it out? You cannot talk to a partner who is not visible...
...Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful day that Henry spoke, there was a still unidentified spy from the French government among the listeners. He reported the British predicament to Paris in accurate detail...
...answer. "Are there any circumstances in any country." Hoffmann asked." where you or the Corporation would support divestiture and how different would these conditions have to be from the conditions in South Africa?" But Bok didn't answer. "It's a question," he said, "[that] I have to ponder...
...sharp restrictions on ABMs. They were moved to do so not just by the philosophical wisdom of the American argument, but by the strength of the American bargaining position. The U.S. had started to build an ABM of its own, despite stiff political opposition, so the Soviets had to ponder the implication of unregulated competition as an alternative to negotiated restraint. They also realized the apparent impossibility of an effective ABM. The 1972 SALT I treaty limiting ABMs is the only nuclear arms control agreement still legally in force between the superpowers. As amended in 1974, it restricts each side...
WORKING ITS WAY through Congress now is a bill that, if passed, would fulfill the nightmares of university presidents and nationwide. Before rubberstamping the bill, as seems likely now, congressmen should very carefully ponder the implications for higher education of a proposed elimination of the mandatory retirement...