Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Striking pictures from the region are featured nightly on the evening news. We sit, glued to our television sets, gasping in wonder at the complexities and conflicts of a world so different from ours...
MANY Americans wonder just how it is that our government gets into some of the messes that it inevitably, regularly does. How did we get so entrenched in Vietnam? How is it possible that President Reagan knew so little about his own administration? How can any administration have as many scandals as Reagan...
...this having been made obvious by dozens of subaqueous movies, one has to wonder why James Cameron, whose Aliens and The Terminator were among the smartest and most frugally made recent entertainments, plunged into the $50 million-plus Abyss. Or, if he was sending his cast on a dive into a bottomless ocean trough, why he didn't at least arrange to have a monster paddle up to meet them...
...early 1970s, blacks disproportionately bore the brunt of the decline of smokestack America. Since then, not only has there been a widening gap between black and white unemployment rates, but the real incomes of some categories of low-skill black workers have plummeted 20% as well. Small wonder that blacks' per capita income was 57% of whites' in 1984, the same percentage as in 1971. So much for the Reagan-era vision of Morning in America...
...Israelis. They may actually have wanted to acquire bait for a hostage swap. Two affiliate groups of Hizballah are believed to be holding three Israeli prisoners of war captured in 1986, two of them soldiers taken in the security zone and the third an air force navigator. Americans wonder if U.S. Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, head of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, who was seized by Hizballah last year, might be part of a swap...