Word: ponderer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glittering two-day conference on Creation and Development, it was clear that there had been nothing modest about their deliberations. Lodged in luxury hotels at the expense of François Mitterrand's Socialist government, the high-powered conventioneers gathered in the Sorbonne's venerable amphitheater to ponder their curious subject: cultural solutions to the world's economic crisis...
...would do well in this age of total and instant analysis to ponder why it is we honor George Washington as we do, why the legend goes on in the face of the reservations and doubts that scholars keep raising. It is true that simply being an American and being around for the start of the United States would have assured Washington some place in history. There was more...
...Mauro has to interrogate Giovanni, a young man who is suspected of having convinced a former mistress to jump out of a window, the legal paraphernalia inevitably gives way to philosophical probing. "Why was I born?". "What is the meaning of life?" Obsessed with such questions, Mauro begins to ponder convincing Marta to commit suicide. The acquaintance with the young man finishes off Mauro's already rickety defenses against the incursions of madness: If life makes no sense in itself, what can distinctions of sanity or public virtue matter...
Preoccupied of late with the problems of Europe and the Middle East, the Reagan Administration has taken little time to ponder the state of its relationships in Asia. Now with frictions increasing, the Administration is squarely facing its differences with the two principal powers of the East, Japan and China. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone paid a three-day visit to Washington last week, and late this week U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz leaves on a twelve-day trip to China, Japan and South Korea. Shultz's mission: to try to overcome some of the problems caused partly...
...told him he could not be reinstated until he obtained a letter certifying that he was not employed elsewhere. They also asked him to respond to government accusations of irregularities in Solidarity's finances. As police moved into the side streets around the shipyard, Walesa went home to ponder his next move. Said he: "Work is necessary for my health. When I worked, I was vigorous. Now I am tired...