Word: wonder
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Still, Bush's system has its converts even among liberals. And his striking success makes parents and students wonder if perhaps all the bubble-filling is perhaps making a difference. As further credit to the system, Texas' funding for education still remains below average, ranking 40th in spending among the 50 states. This means that it isn't the famous Democratic solution--spending--that has increased the scores of Texas students...
When she lost him, she lost her way for a while. He was, undoubtedly, her greatest inspiration. But I wonder, who inspires her now? So many kids look up to her, but who can she admire that has possibly experienced as much as she has? This time, she doesn't hesitate...
...embossed Harvard College Library seal and supple paper, my first reaction was to wash my hands, carefully place it back in the envelope and store it in a safe place for 50 years, when my grandkids are ready to apply to Harvard. My next idea was to wonder why the Library sent one of those hefty folders to every single undergraduate student in what was easily a $50,000-plus project. Without even beginning to address alternative uses for that kind of money, I must ask what was really communicated last week with the library's folders...
Abramian has no family in the United States and has not told any of his relatives in Russia that he is homeless. They would wonder, he says, why he bothered to come to America just to be homeless...
...Little wonder, then, that when Fred wanted to expand his store and told the owner of an adjacent store that his sublease would not be renewed, Sharpton's organization stepped in. Sharpton sent the matter to his organization's Buy Black steering committee and announced at a rally that "we will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business on 125th Street...