Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those not fortunate enough to eat at the kitchens regularly, never fear--similar modernization construction will be conducted on all House kitchens over the next six to eight summers. Until then, the growing popularity of the new feeding grounds makes us wonder if the Kirkland and Eliot House committees will soon be investing in gongs...
...Foundation is itself traditionally liberal in its views (Gloria Steinem is one of the founding organizers), and I wonder how the members of that group would feel if their White House Project helped contribute to the election of a conservative woman president. Wilson bristled a little at my question and reiterated her stance that the goal was to flood the national stage with strong women candidates and then start considering the issue of politics. Real leadership, she repeated, was moving forward in the face of criticism of the sort I had just raised...
...most disturbing effect of this controversy has been what it has revealed about the U.S. political climate regarding Puerto Rico. One has to wonder--if this issue dealt with the lives of prisoners of another ethnicity or nationality that is prominent in New York--would President Clinton then be accused of trying to win that group's votes for his wife? Could the core of this reaction be the threat of a non-white group having grown in numbers and risen in power and prominence in one of the U.S. major cities...
Since work is where we spend most of our time and where many of us meet our spouses, you have to wonder whether all this regulation isn't threatening the propagation of the species. Other freedoms, like speech and association, were getting shortchanged in the rush to protect women from sexual harassment. Almost everyone was alarmed when one guy was fired for repeating a Seinfeld joke at the water cooler...
GREG SMITH is not a mama's boy. The freshman at Randolph-Macon College had a very sound reason for bringing both parents along on his first day of school: he's only 10 years old. The boy wonder was able to complete 10 school grades in three years. This is just as well, as his plans for the future include getting doctorates in political science and biomedical and aerospace engineering, curing cancer, colonizing space and, natch, becoming President of the U.S. The latter shouldn't be a problem as the young frosh has resolved not to let other students...