Word: wondered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forced to try on their Commander in Chief uniforms a little earlier than they might have liked, it was no wonder so many of the presidential candidates at first went searching for camouflage. Most had planned to pad through the complexities of the post-cold war world in careful speeches in front of think tanks that would be largely ignored. Now their strengths and weaknesses are in full view: Buchanan, McCain and Gary Bauer (on leave as Family Research Council president) at least have the benefit of strong, albeit wildly different, convictions. Bush has to confront his inexperience; Elizabeth Dole...
...wonder weapons of air power looked futile against primitive "ethnic cleansers" with guns. The long-threatened bombing campaign failed to deter the rape of Kosovo and even appeared to be speeding it. Publicly, NATO insisted that the blame for the refugee flight lay solely with Milosevic, not Western bombs. But privately, officials offered a line that made more sense alongside the awful images. Military planners lamented that bad weather, clever Serb tactics, White House worries about collateral damage--and a reluctance to risk pilots' lives--kept them from hitting at Milosevic as hard as they wished. And diplomats complained that...
...looking pretty much like the old one. More sorties from more planes--if the weather improves--will try to rattle Milosevic by hitting him close to home. The classified guidance for this phase calls for attacks sufficient to break the will of the Serb leader. But some Pentagon officers wonder how wrecking Yugoslavia's military headquarters will do anything to curb violence against the Kosovars. "The Serbs in the field are just thugs on a rampage," says a Navy planner. "They don't need guidance on how to knock down doors and kill people." The Pentagon is no longer talking...
...start-ups to turn a profit--albeit a small one--on sales of $47 million last year. Since eBay acts as an intermediary with little or no overhead to cover, "consumer-to-consumer auctions can be like printing money," says Marc Johnson, senior analyst at Jupiter Communications. No wonder investors have valued the fledgling company at a monstrous $16 billion--nearly that of Sears, which has 872 times as much in sales ($41.3 billion...
...season of Tigermania, Duval won his first-ever PGA tournament. He won the next week too, and then the next. "We knew [that] once David got going, he'd win a bunch," Davis Love III said last week. "But we never expected a roll like this. You wonder where it's going to end." Or if. The roll has included 10 victories in 33 starts, and record winnings last year of $2.6 million...