Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...profits are both up." The major flaw is that food prices, which are largely uncontrolled, are rising rapidly, undermining consumer confidence in the whole program. Kosters still argues that food prices reflect not cost-push inflation but the pressure of demand upon a limited supply. He is beginning to wonder, however, whether controls may have to be extended to cover "demand-pull" inflation. In pondering such problems, Kosters thinks of himself as a practical man rather than an ideologue; he pledges that any price that is rising sharply will get quick COLC attention...
...Hugh. It's always interesting to look at Edo Marion's fencing team and wonder what they're going to do. The old master has been here at Harvard for 21 years and last season had his best record ever, finishing second in the Ivy League. He's pretty confident about the upcoming season, too Edo expects this squad to be one of his best. He's recruited some experienced fencers to go with last year's young team, and , if he can harness the antics of his madcap fencers, there should be a lot of victories coming...
...industry-much to the dismay of the powerful machinists union. Yet, by staying neutral, Meany and his allies in the steelworkers union are helping Nixon get reelected; some of the building trades unions, in fact, are expected to endorse the President. The dissident union chieftains are frankly baffled. They wonder if Meany knows something they do not. "He hasn't been wrong before," says a machinist official who supports McGovern. "He's always known what's the right thing...
...King's Boeing 727 land safely on the runway, he apparently lost his nerve. "It's not possible," Hassan quoted him as saying. "It must be another airplane." Without waiting to see the King, Oufkir drove to army headquarters. "From that moment," said Hassan, "I began to wonder what was going...
...friendly, but impatient: "Can't you walk any faster? No wonder you people lost The War. There just isn't TIME to do things that...