Word: wonders
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...heated so it's inert. Fluff is used as a peat substitute. Bouldin's new landfill project is expected to swing to profitability after it launches its first durable products next year: landscape timber and building blocks made from trash. "A few years down the line, we'll wonder why we ever put this stuff in the ground," says marketing manager Terry Jones...
...that the prospects for their congressional candidates in November's midterms have never been as bad as advertised and are getting better by the day. Those are party operatives and political savants whose job it is to anticipate trouble. But much of the time they seem so placid, you wonder whether they know something...
...devil - in the form, let us say, of a crack dealer - does not live next door. The kids are, as far as we can see, perfectly normal young Americans. And, indeed, the politicians their parents overwhelming favor have been in power for six years. So one begins to wonder: What are the sources of that powerful sense of disenfranchisement that drive these parents to abet this robbery, this travesty, of childhood...
...flickers briefly in a dorm discussion of Harry Potter. Most the kids say the J. K. Rowling books are forbidden in their homes. But one little boys admits, quite cheerfully, that when he is staying with his divorced father, he is permitted to read them. Let us not wonder if it was religious differences that drove his father forth. Or if religious belief is one way his former wife compensates for a broken marriage. Let's instead concentrate on the enveloping power of secularism in America, the way it seeps in everywhere, no matter how many towels you stuff under...
...over the place, about as common as the guitar throughout. Strings sap up “Black Flowers.” The organ in “I Should Have Known Better” is used to nice effect, giving the illusion of fun. It’s a wonder how so many different sounds can be used to create something so monotonous. The only traces of the band’s former three (or fewer) chords and a cloud of dust Velvet Underground homage style are in the tracks that bookend the album, “Pass the Hatchet...