Word: ponderousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airline industry figures that three of those eight cannot, for various reasons, be lured onto an airplane. That leaves half of the population for the airline industry to work on in its effort to win more customers. Last week in Washington the industry's marketing executives met to ponder why so many stay earthbound and to figure out new ways to tempt them into the air. The task is vital to the lines: for every additional 1% of the population that they succeed in attracting to flight, they gain $100 million in revenues. This year they are flying more...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "The American Dream: Class of '65." As June graduates take their leave, colleges ponder larger classes to follow. Newscaster Peter Jennings explores the situation...
...gave Chou something to ponder before buzzing off to other African capitals...
...another. Since his forte is satire, he did not fail to convey the somewhat frightening prospect of man's new capability to store a mass of information and, on signal, send it anywhere in the world. His drawing, both asuming and sobering, is one to study and ponder...
...even produce evidence," on the two vital realities of man's being, his free will and his consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than was the evidence when an ancient shepherd guided his flock toward the setting sun and wondered why he was there and where he was going...