In some ways, as single women contemplating the problems of relationships and late motherhood, Lily and Miranda are cut from the same cloth.
Had the exploits of Client 9 not completely hijacked the media, the nation might have spent part of that week contemplating career problems of a less spectacular sort: those plaguing the nation's young scientists.
They stood, contemplating the problem, while the copiers whirred.
Contemplating the problem of turning information into useful knowledge, Gleick sees a similar role for blogs and aggregators, syntheses like Wikipedia, and the "vast, collaborative filter" of our connectivity.
Many people smarter and better informed than me work at Microsoft, and they have certainly been contemplating this problem for longer than I have.
Cinema is one of the ways a nation entertains itself, but also contemplates its problems, peculiarities and changes.
The software also fills in the tedious work, he said, giving the mathematician more time to contemplate other problems, and it generates as much or as little detail as a mathematician desires.
"The biggest challenge we have is Ukraine," said Mr. Bildt, his brow furrowing as he contemplated the problems: how to anchor democracy and economic stability amid the roiling politics of Kiev; how to persuade Russia that this is not a threat; how to settle the gas dispute between the two and avert the threat to supplies to Europe.
Firstly, the manager should contemplate individual problems in context and avoid making rash decisions.
He could stubbornly contemplate a problem for decades.
