Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Little wonder that on the eve of this week's annual International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, the IMF and U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin sent their strongest signals yet that they're poised to assemble a $30 billion package of bailout loans to Brazil. "We believe that the economic well-being of Brazil is critically important not only to our economy but to the entire hemisphere," said Rubin...
...spiraling costs, employers joined managed-care organizations (like HMOs) and began to set their own prices for medical services. Doctors and hospitals must accept these fees or risk losing patients. Hospitals have lost money. At Duke the crisis has spread to the research lab and the medical school. People wonder if the academic medical center--the source of many important scientific breakthroughs--can survive. Meanwhile, managed-care companies, having picked up the easiest profits early on, have begun to see their own costs rise...
...long way toward either reassuring people that the process is orderly and rational or convincing them that it is a witch hunt. "If I were to fail," he told TIME last week, "it would negate everything I have done before." And even those who know him best wonder which Henry Hyde it is that Americans will meet in the coming days: the man who Commerce Secretary William Daley, a Democrat, says exhibits "exemplary character and the highest personal integrity"? Or the Cook County Republican precinct captain carrying out the orders of the man behind the scenes, Newt Gingrich...
...Hancock followed with The New Standard, an entire album of rock-era tunes in which he improvised on changes derived from the Beatles, Sade and Kurt Cobain, among others. Joshua Redman's forthcoming Timeless Tales (for Changing Times) (Warner Bros.) covers similar ground, with songs by Joni Mitchell, Stevie Wonder and the Beatles again; included is a winning, credibly swinging version of Eleanor Rigby--some surprise for those of us who will slowly peel the skin off our faces if we ever hear the original again. But isn't transformation (and occasionally transcendence) one of jazz's raisons d'etre...
...roofs of Paris in their Spider-Man skivvies; they perform the great stunts; they are the master spies, the mad bombers, the killer caterers. And in Irma Vep (played by Musidora, fetchingly saturnine in pancake makeup and black tights), Les Vampires gave us film's first modern woman. No wonder the Paris police banned an episode for depicting "exalted evil...