Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really have to wonder why our UC Chair "accidentally miscounted" the same vote TWICE on an obviously close vote and then proceeded to escalate a shouting match between himself and a member of the Council. I've been since told that a personal animosity exists between Beroutsos and Mandery; if so, it shouldn't be allowed to effect the decision-making process of the Council. Granted, Beroutsos was out of line by losing his cool and resorting to vulgarities aimed at other Council members, but someone did need to challenge Mandery's obvious abuse of power. I don't know...
Although Superman's adventures were a fairly crude story, fairly crudely illustrated, their overnight success not only earned millions but also created shoals of imitators, such as Batman, Captain Marvel, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. "Oddly enough," says Cartoonist Jules Feiffer, "the Depression enlivened the American dream that anyone could make it, and that's what Superman did. I loved the fantasy of this guy who had all this strength. While Superman went around beating up crooks, in my dreams I was beating up authority figures...
...this month's 50th-anniversary issue of Action Comics, one episode opens with the man of steel indulging in a long and steamy kiss with Wonder Woman. After a good deal of fisticuffs and flying around, though, the tale ends with Superman saying "I was fooling myself when I thought there might be a chance for romance between the two of us, Wonder Woman . . . I admire you, Wonder Woman. I respect you. But I really am just a boy from Kansas." From which it seems clear that the comic-book Superman, at least, remains as squarely virtuous as ever...
...wonder, then, that such a motley class has assembled here on the bleak prairie outside Waco. There are a former helicopter pilot and a nurse, out-of- work oil roughnecks and two grandmothers, a bookkeeper and a county jailer. Even a computer programmer. People with lives gone sour or careers on hold. People treading water, looking for a break. For them the open road beckons as a great new beginning. "I'll make my husband's $45,000 within two years," whispers Goodrum. She and a friend have enrolled so they can travel the country with their trucker husbands...
...registered nurses, the average beginning salary is $21,000, yet 30-year veterans regularly earn less than $30,000. Duties range from starting intravenous lines and bathing patients to such menial tasks as fixing TVs and taking out the garbage. Hospitals routinely require 50- and 60-hour workweeks. Little wonder, then, that enrollment in nursing schools has plummeted 20%, to less than 200,000 student nurses, since 1983. During that period, four of the nation's top nursing schools have closed their doors...