Word: wonder
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Every year the defense budget is presented to Congress as a "bare bones" program for American defense; Secretary of Defense Harold Brown argued this point last month before several Senate committees. Yet two major issues lead one to wonder if the proposed budget is just the bare minimum. First, with regard to the nuclear deterrent, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara determined that an adequate nuclear deterrent was 200-400 megaton equivalents, enough explosive to destroy about 30% of Soviet population and 70% of industry in a second strike. Today the U.S. deploys over 10,000 strategic nuclear warheads, many times...
...wonder, since we have only five minutes, if I might make two observations. One of them is that this meeting is, I hope, an opportunity to share just how frustrating and difficult a situation we confront, where we all share very deeply a sense of outrage against a whole set of practices which are deeply inhumane. But nonetheless, the situation is very difficult. One of the difficulties, of course, is that the ultimate step of divestment, to give up the threat of real penalty to a corporation, is not necessarily that at all. Unfortunately, various corporate executives have indicated...
...Chicago and now is head of the Social Responsibility in Investments for the United Church Boards in the United Church of Christ. He says, he's writing to Tony Lewis of the New York Times, who as you know devoted two articles to this subject. He says, "I wonder if you have any information which we lack concerning the political and physical possibility of any foreign firm actually withdrawing its assets from the Republic of South Africa. On March 30, 1977, the South African Finance Minister stated in his budget speech to the Parliament that foreign controlled South African enterprises...
...Manhattan at the time I did it; it does go farther than Annie Hall. But 1 think now I could do better. Of course, if my film makes one more person feel miserable, I'll feel I've done my job." He is only half joking. It is no wonder that his original title for Annie Hall was Anhedonia, a psychoanalytic term that means "incapable of experiencing pleasure...
...minority of businessmen wonder if Hong Kong may be undercutting itself by shifting operations to China. Says Jack Tang, chairman of South Sea Textile Manufacturing: "In effect, you're setting up a plant with the latest machinery and you're teaching the mainland Chinese production and marketing. When your contract expires, you find that you have just created more competition for yourself...