Word: ponderously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nobel Committee has learned, its prize is less often the reward for "successful efforts at peace than it is - as it was with Von Ossietzky - for a valiant try. In their continuing maneuvers toward Middle Eastern peace, Sadat and Begin might well ponder the case histories of some of their fellow laureates: Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann, the French and German statesmen who won the 1926 prize for the ill-fated Locarno peace trea ties, in which Belgium, France and Germany agreed never to fight again; American Diplomat Frank Kellogg, who was the originator of the Utopian Kellogg-Briand Pact...
Behind the public image, another side of the Pope was emerging: that of a strong-minded decision maker. Instead of rubber-stamping the reappointments of senior Curia officials, John Paul announced that he needed time to ponder them. That stirred flutters of prelatic concern?was a reshuffle in store? He did fill the top Curia post of Secretary of State by reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease...
...acre: inputs of seed, fertilizer, irrigation water, machine time; output in bushels and dollars. He draws up precise operating schedules for his half-million dollars' worth of machinery; after all, every gallon of fuel saved adds a few more cents to profit. His print-outs also help him ponder marketing strategy (when should he time the sale of his crops to get the best price?) and financial problems (how can he distribute the stock in his family corporation so that his wife and seven children pay the lowest estate taxes...
...current value to the U.S., the CIA must continue protecting him, if only to keep from discouraging other would-be defectors. The first step is for the CIA once again to cloak him in anonymity. Shevchenko thus has gone back into hiding to await his new identity and ponder the fact that even in the U.S. you have got to be careful about whom you tryst...
...Rome, Cardinals bury a Pope and ponder his successor...