Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerlessness as well, since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money can do; and when such essential, familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder that people may grow wild, frantic, even (as in the shooting in a stockbrokers' office in Miami last week) murderous...
...majority rule will bring to South Africa,when people of all races try to restructure asociety warped by centuries of racial oppression.When that restructuring finally begins, an electedBlack government will probably face violentcounter-reaction from people who now support thegovernment or parties even further to the right.One can only wonder whether Huntington willcondone reactionary violence by a governmentelected by the Black majority, as calmly as heapparently condoned repression of revolutionariesby the old regime...
...that said, one may well wonder at the wisdom of programming concerts as one might "program" a recording. Brahms's late music is beautiful and profound, but it is also, from an audience's standpoint, exhausting to listen to in long stretches...
Given the all around apathy, masters say it isno wonder that faculty and student attendance isfar from complete at SCR events...
...wonder, then, that stock investors have been nervous. Whatever the precise mix of emotions and events that triggered last week's collapse -- and to establish that mix would require probing into millions of minds around the world -- its root cause was a dim but accurate perception that U.S. prosperity was not sustainable with present policy. And with Congress and the President perpetually wrangling over the most modest proposals to reduce the budget deficit, they could see no sign that policy was about to change...