Word: wonders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, the closure of voting booths certainly does not signal the end of questions pertaining to Zimbabwe's future. Some wonder what the effect of the Prime Minister's promise of a one-party state will have on white and other minority political parties. Others question what Mugabe means when saying his victory represents a mandate for instituting "socialism...
...dinner was served, the TV crew began filming. "It's a bloody circus, all this television stuff," complained Peter Hill from Illinois. "We are just serving their ends, and we wonder sometimes what it is all about." Another hostage whispered: "Maybe ABC had us hijacked to improve their ratings...
...wonder, then, that frightened Anglos sometimes whisper about a "silent invasion from the south" that will transform parts of the U.S. into annexed territories. But this fear is much more mythology than fact, in part because the Hispanics are anything but a unified force...
Other nations, by contrast, actually encourage emigration. Mexico's population is growing so fast that the country would have to create at least 750,000 jobs a year just to keep its unemployment rate from mounting further. Small wonder, then, that Mexico makes scant effort to assist the U.S. in reversing the tide. President Ferdinand Marcos has cited the annual exodus of 35,000 Filipinos to the U.S. as a help in offsetting two of his country's most obstinate problems: unemployment (now running at 45%) and a lopsided balance of payments. In South Korea, the departure of workers...
...Croatians from Yugoslavia; 1,800 Colombians; 6,200 immigrants from Taiwan, Hong Kong and China. In the Flushing section of Queens, a few miles east, there are 38,000 Koreans. Before he explored his new neighborhood recently, one Flushing resident fresh from India had been expecting a blonder, Wonder Bread community, like Des Moines, maybe, or Tacoma. "It wasn't America," he says of northeastern Queens. "It was the U.N. I saw Colombians, Koreans, Chinese, Dominican Republicans -- but not a single hamburger...