Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...statehouse on a rainy Friday, May 25, the first action was to name Washington presiding officer, a responsibility that led him to remain all but silent in the ensuing debates. He took up his position in a handsome mahogany chair ornamented with a half-sun, prompting Franklin to wonder whether it would prove to be a setting or rising...
...Exchange Commission would go begging until David Sturtevant Ruder, 58, a Northwestern University law professor, ended a six-month White House search by accepting the $82,500-a-year position last week. Ruder has taught courses in SEC law and written extensively on securities, but some skeptics in Congress wonder if he is the "tough cop" needed to continue the crackdown on Wall Street's insider-trading scandal...
...hijackings were painfully fresh, and the headlines were filled with reports of a radioactive cloud drifting westward over Europe from the damaged Soviet nuclear reactor at Chernobyl. Speculation abounded that Libyan Dictator Muammar Gaddafi might take bloody revenge for the U.S. bombing of Tripoli on American tourists abroad. No wonder Americans looked closer to home for vacation spots. One year later, as fears about safety in Europe have faded, Americans are grabbing their passports, packing their guidebooks and crossing the Atlantic again in huge waves. Tour operators, airlines, hotels and travel ministries are reporting heavy bookings and bustling business from...
...Paris -- a city for every facet of the mind. He would have you connect travel with an appreciation of the past as well. In Jerusalem recently, he walked the Old City, brushing thousands of years of faith and murder. He would like you to see yourself as history, to wonder what you would have shouted, or at whom, as Jesus struggled up the Via Dolorosa. He hopes that you will husband your own past too. The past means possibility...
Most astronomers want further confirmation before they believe other planets exist, but few deny the special appeal of the search. Says Gordon Walker, a member of the Canadian team: "You often wonder when you're looking at these things if someone up there isn't looking back...