Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitution does not give it the right to conscript people to work in civilian occupations. The White House, along with many conservatives and libertarians as well as liberals, opposes national service on the ground that it would be an unnecessary intervention by the Government into people's lives. Some wonder how a program could be enforced. "What are you going to have?" asks Alan Weisberg, a youth-employment consultant in Oakland. "Criminal penalties for those who don't work...
...midst of profound changes both in health insurance and in health-care delivery systems. Many of these changes increase health sector competition. Competition has many positive aspects; for example, it increases consumer choice and weeds out the less efficient. It is no wonder that Americans prize competition. But these benefits also involve costs: for example, potential declines in quality and segmentation of the insurance market and delivery system as subscribers try to disassociate themselves from those more likely to be sick...
Weren't they aware that the corporate structure they worshipped was the very quagmire in which blacks now find themselves trapped, mysteriously unable to advance beyond the middle management level? When none of the top 100 earners on Wall Street are black, you've got to wonder. Ninety percent of Black executives polled by the Journal said they felt their companies were unwilling to promote Blacks beyond the middle management level. You're just not going to make $41 million as a middle manager...
Student Six: I am what is called a Euro. I have an asymmetrical, dyed hairstyle and tend to wear clothing from the 20s. Sometimes I wonder aloud why we are even sitting in this class, for indeed we are all going to die someday, and then what? I think section discussions are all so pedestrian, for I once read a book by T.S. Eliot and then debated its relevance to the underground music movement over a cup of coffee and a clove cigarette at a nameless cafe with a man wearing a beret-like hat. I too sometimes wear...
...most places, marked by three strands of barbed wire clinging to rotting posts hidden in chest-high grass. At a point where the road elbows its way out of forested hills and runs through open country, a Honduran soldier on patrol warns, "The Sandinistas will shoot at anybody." No wonder. Thousands of U.S.-backed contras have infiltrated that barbed-wire border to set up a base camp nearly 20 miles inside Nicaragua...