Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...company is one of the poster children of technology wonder-companies that have had astronomical growth in a very short time...
...leadership. Yeltsin seems to be President in name only, a figure so diminished that he was forced onto national TV last Friday to insist, "I'm not going to resign." The merry-go-round of Prime Ministers bespeaks the destructively ad hoc nature of the country's governance. No wonder Russians and the rest of the world were left wondering anxiously last week, Is anyone in charge here...
...hero doesn't win the big race. Instead, he dies young and absurdly in an auto accident, leaving his highest promise unfulfilled. No wonder Warner Bros. has been dithering over the release of Without Limits for something like a year and a half. In that story line it's kind of hard to find the thing all sports movies implicitly promise--a triumph of the human spirit...
...adoptee, I never cease to be amazed that when I tell people I'm adopted, they ask, "Do you know your real parents?" Of course I know my real parents. They are the people who raised me. I wonder when everyone will realize that the title of Mom or Dad is not a birthright but one that is earned, one that you work for every day of your child's life. It will be a glorious time for America's children when so-called adults stop treating children as property and start treating them as people. JOHN F. BOYNTON...
...wonder that insurance giant AIG recently bought variable-annuity titan SunAmerica. For some reason, consumers are buying record numbers of these instruments, which are essentially tax-deferred mutual funds wrapped around life insurance. Annuities usually carry high fees and taxes. Our advice: stick to options like 401(k)s and IRAs...