Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonder the Columbia assistant coaches looked so unhappy after the Harvard game," people are chuckling. "They are the only ones in the country who didn't have Harvard in their office pools...
...check on many U.S. companies. We could still launch another bid of more than $10 billion in the U.S." White's bankroll is seemingly inexhaustible -- but then, so are the exciting economic opportunities of America itself. With all those tempting troves of undervalued wealth in view, it is small wonder that Sir Gordon and his many foreign imitators still want...
...optimism and willful idealism of Bad and Man in the Mirror and shrouding the record in a spooky, spiritual darkness. The piece is powerful, all right, but not perhaps in the way Jackson intended. It overpowers the joy of the playful competitiveness in his duet with peerless Stevie Wonder (Just Good Friends). It leavens the cosmic sentimentality of Another Part of Me well enough -- if E.T. had come to earth as a crooner, this would have been his My Way -- but does so with bile and fear...
...Cable television and inexpensive satellite hookups provide the perfect forum for sparring candidates to receive free media exposure. The possibility of wide-open races also contributes to the outbreak of political logorrhea. When a candidate is running behind "Undecided" in the polls, a debate gaffe holds little risk. Small wonder that the strongest resistance to an all-talk campaign comes from the handlers of Bush, the candidate with the most to lose. Campaign Manager Lee Atwater complains, "The thing is just getting out of hand...
...difficulty of that task, and of many others she faces. Months before Aquino took seriously to politics, she said, "If I were President, I don't think I could ever sleep with all the problems in my head." Now that she has the job, it is a wonder she gets any sleep...