Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lincoln--he has a doctorate in education--in what can be attributed to either the ceaseless wonder of America's entrepreneurial spirit or a particularly good batch of hooch, invented the Testicle Festival. "I dabbled in poetry when I was young, and it just sort of rolled off the tongue," says Lincoln, who requests that details of his education be downplayed...
...more women are getting mammograms than ever before and costs have fallen dramatically. Managed care saved between $150 billion and $250 billion last year alone out of total U.S. health-care spending of $1 trillion. If things are really as bad as Hollywood and Washington say, the plan administrators wonder, why do more than three-quarters of their members say they are satisfied with their health care...
...cute and adorable in many ways but increasingly irritating as you get to know her. Plus, most of her comments and actions lack any kind of substance whatsoever--they're just re-hashings of things she's already said and done. Once you figure all this out, you wonder how long it's going to take before other people realize her charade and call her on it. Surprisingly, no one may ever notice, leaving you wondering if you should just go back to pretending to enjoy her shallow and empty mannerisms...
Sometimes I wonder whether we aren't a little bit too accepting of it. Naturally it makes sense that we, as students, haven't made up our minds yet about what to do with ourselves. And if you think about it, it also makes sense that conferring a diploma on somebody might not necessarily spark an instantaneous decision. But after a while, doesn't the endless moving, the constant future-looking, the neverending eagerness for what to do Next--doesn't it start...
...phoned the girl's mother (a single parent with a live-in boyfriend) and asked her to come right over. I phoned her two more times during the hour it took her to get to my home (she lives five minutes away). With parents like that, it's no wonder that so many kids are out of control. The next day I bought my son condoms. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Plano, Texas...