Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...November about fifty undergraduates have been meeting to write a constitution for a new student government at Harvard, and to date the Convention has produced no substantive decisions on the structure of that government. As the convention now enters its fourth month of meetings, many students are beginning to wonder just how long it will take for some concrete proposals to emerge. Many convention members are wondering the same thing...
Judge Fox cited one deal in which a customer was billed $8,000 for an option that was being sold for $2,500 by other firms. Indeed, investigators wonder whether the firm ever made any of the options purchases that it claimed to. Two of the three London-licensed traders that Lloyd, Carr supposedly used as brokers deny ever having had dealings with the firm; the third, based in Bermuda, turns out to be owned by Carr...
Still, there are moments when the writer practically dithers with good-hearted advice to lovelorn friends. At such times, he seems rather sweetly engaged in life's daily emotional traffic, even though Kafka was aware that he could never experience what Thomas Hardy called "the wonder and the wormwood of the whole...
...Christian believers. For conservatives, including the growing Evangelical forces and many adherents of the waning neo-orthodox theology, the policy on homosexuality is crucial in ways that go far beyond the question of whether homosexuals are permitted to join the clergy. Since the Bible is so explicit, they wonder if the church will have any biblical basis for imposing any restrictions on human behavior if it votes moral acceptance of active homosexuality...
...medical statisticians insist that it is not yet an epidemic because not enough people have sickened and died to meet that criterion. This is no comfort to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been laid low with influenza. No words and no wonder drugs help to lower the initial fever, ease the aching head and bones, stop the hacking cough and make rubbery legs feel strong again. Dr. Donald O. Lyman, director of New York's Bureau of Disease Control, advises: "I'd stay in bed, let people fawn over me, drink my fruit juice...