Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thank God, they knew it was a game and they didn't take it too seriously. Can you imagine Yogi saying, as the No Lights fanatics do, "It's a bastardization of a baseball tradition." The great Yankee catcher, king of the malaprop, would be more likely to wonder how it happened that the sun could still be shining at 9 p.m. in Wrigley...
WITH a lock like that, one must wonder just how hard politicians will campaign for the Black vote in the future. This year, none of the candidates made concerted efforts to garner Black votes, as they all conceded the vote to Jackson early on. And Black voters did not get much attention until Dukakis emerged as the front-runner. Even then, Dukakis by-passed Blacks and went straight to Jesse Jackson...
...morning in America"--that's what Ronald Reagan told the voters in 1984, while his opponent Walter Mondale was busy asking his Democratic rivals "Where's the beef?" No wonder Reagan won: He had Ben Franklin and 200 years of early birds backing his re-election bid when all Mondale had was the Wendy's franchise behind...
Predicting the future is always risky, but when it comes to the oil business, it often seems downright impossible. Who could have foreseen the shocking oil- price hikes of the 1970s? And then prophesied bottom-of-the-barrel cuts in the 1980s? No wonder the possibility of a cease-fire between Iran and Iraq threw oil traders into a frenzy last week as they tried to divine whether the cost of crude would ultimately go up or down...
...premier military facility in Massachusetts and the home of the Air Force's Electronic Systems Division. Four ESD commanders have invited you. Accepting such invitations is the normal political practice, and other Massachusetts officials have regularly done so. Your unwillingness to visit Hanscom has led many of us to wonder whether you are viscerally antimilitary...