Word: ponderer
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That may be the heart of the problem. Carter has been thinking out loud. Much of his talk is unnecessary, a lot of it ineffective, some of it troublesome. The world is slightly paranoid over word meanings. Bureaucrats and diplomats get exorbitant salaries these days to ponder the depths of "homeland" or "defensible borders." In the torrent of Carter words there are always contradictions for those who want to find them. For others, there is growing boredom...
...comic uses, however, when in the climactic moments of the play one of the men, seated at the piano, unfurls his tresses to reveal that he is actually a she. So, it turns out, are all of his companions. Thus at the very last moment we are left to ponder the play in a surprise twisted framework...
Energy. The more businessmen ponder the program that Carter presented to Congress in April, the less they like it. The program relies primarily on taxes to force conservation by raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn...
...studied philosophy "like crazy." He recalls: "I got to a point where I could no longer speak." When after three years he began reading Ludwig Wittgenstein, who declared that if philosophical problems are solved, "little is achieved," Martin dropped back into show business. But he still likes to ponder philosophical problems. "I know all the important ethical questions," he tells audiences, "like is it O.K. to yell movie in a crowded firehouse...
While the Fellows ponder, the Development Office plans and plots. Although Harvard investments yield more than most charitable institutions' portfolios, the endowment is plummeting in real value. Harvard will probably announce a major capital drive sometime next year, the first such endeavor since...