Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wickedly partisan wag suggested that Republican Fund Raiser Maurice Stans' safe ought to be acquired by the National Archives because so much of the Nixon Administration's history will be based on the safe and its contents. There is just enough truth in that to make one ponder the inordinate obsession of Washington with the dollar...
...that bloc politics will continue, on both sides of the old Iron Curtain. Western Europe will continue on its present track: toward a fairly sophisticated economic federation, but probably well short of a situation in which a Liverpool docker, say, or a Turin auto worker would actually have to ponder, as he steps into a voting booth, whether Willy Brandt would indeed make a good President of Europe...
...make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with long-term sentences. After posting bonds totaling $650,000, he was temporarily free to ponder the high price of crime...
...programs have not been formally scrapped, just suspended while officials ponder whether they do enough good to be continued, possibly in changed form. A case for such restudy can certainly be made. Some of the subsidy programs have been scarred by scandal. Before a belated FHA crackdown, fast-buck operators in a few cities bought or built ramshackle dwellings under Section 235, got inflated valuations from FHA appraisers and sold the buildings to unsuspecting buyers at unjustifiably high prices. In addition, the attempt to move public housing out of the ghettos and scatter it through white middle-class neighborhoods...
Graduate students have since retreated from this stance, and are now seemingly content to look after nothing more than their own financial interests. As members of the now largely inactive Union ponder why undergraduates have lost interest in their cause, they would do well to trace the disillusionment to the changed position in their policy...