Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case for the Brady plan is appropriately Mexico, whose economic distress is fully matched both by its strategic significance to the U.S. and by the avowed commitment of its leadership to reform. Mexico has drastically cut spending and started selling inefficient state enterprises. Still, the economy is stagnant. No wonder. The equivalent of about $13 billion a year that might otherwise go to internal investment or the purchase of imports is being siphoned off to service Mexico's nearly $100 billion debt. Under quiet prodding from Washington, the Mexican government and a consortium of international banks have been negotiating...
Evidence is being presented to a grand jury that will decide whether indictments are warranted. But Spence's days of trading on his guest list have ended, and he has gone underground. Those who once dined at his table are wondering out loud about the curious 8-ft.-long two-way mirror in his house, and the young men, and what exactly Craig Spence did to earn all the money he was throwing around. They wonder only now that the party is over...
...debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands"). But the very unity of this collection produces a sameness. The reader begins to wonder, Doesn't Minot know anyone who is married, or older than thirtysomething? Doesn't she ever look beyond these modish urban lofts and restaurants? Henry Kissinger once remarked of Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew that he needed a larger country for his talents. Minot, a writer to watch, needs...
...environmentalists' stand could push the timber industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...
...view. "A chance like this doesn't come along very often," says Avellar. "To see the northern lights is very humbling and awe-inspiring. You realize the sun is just going about its business and making our nighttime sky glow without any trouble at all. It makes you wonder what would happen if the sun ever really...