Word: ponders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conception of Judas as hero evolves, moreover, with what used to be called a fruitful ambiguity, leaving the reader to ponder the author's real intent. For while Judas begins as a humanist hero and Della Paresi is clearly a villain, it becomes progressively clear just how much Judas, the political revolutionary, and this unscrupulous priest resemble each other. They are both, in fact, unpleasant Ubermen-schen who see themselves as saviors of mankind but scorn all other men and other men's laws. Judas and Della Paresi agree that the meek will never inherit the earth...
Next Bargain. When Ling bought up companies at low prices, however, few of his shareholders stopped to ponder that he could get them cheap precisely because they had ponderous problems. Hoping both to solve those problems and raise more and more cash, Ling sliced up the major parts of his empire, creating smaller companies. (When he cut Wilson & Co. into separate meatpacking, sporting-goods and drug firms, brokers dubbed them "meat ball, golf ball and goof ball.") The plan was to sell new shares in these companies to the public, as well as to give plenty of options to their...
While the experts ponder, the current dilemma remains and can be read on the backs of the ever-multiplying automobiles that choke Western city streets. The license plates still brag about BIG SKY COUNTRY and LAND...
Securities and Exchange Commission, which, the Journal implied, is considering both civil and criminal proceedings in the matter. Meanwhile, an embarrassed Otis Chandler can only ponder the cruelties of misplaced friendship. "Jack called me a couple of times after the trouble started," Chandler told TIME. "He was in tears telling me his profound regret. He tried to apologize. I didn't accept...
...than a higher output of cars, chemicals and electric can openers. Unemployment would not rise; fewer people would work in basic industries, but more people would find jobs as teachers, park attendants and medical technicians. Poorer nations could continue to concentrate on increasing G.N.P., though the poor, too, should ponder whether they might not be better off building bicycle plants instead of auto assembly lines, even if car factories raise G.N.P. more...