His employees are encouraged to ponder careers with the company, and might even own stakes in it.
In the early years, the club sponsored essay contests in which young women were encouraged to ponder questions like, "Can systematical and economical housekeeping be carried on in conjunction with keeping up your intellectual pursuits?" Members knitted sweaters for soldiers in World War I and rolled bandages during World War II.
All Canavero feels obliged to do is encourage people to ponder the implications.
Those flower-bedecked cards being showered today on the male of the parental species may encourage one to ponder, in the mushiest language possible, what it means to be a dad.
Although many of Dr. Jones's Daedalus columns were simple flights of fancy, thought experiments designed to encourage readers to ponder the limits of science and stretch the laws of physics, he was credited with anticipating several major creations and discoveries, including noise-canceling devices and chemically powered lasers.
While insisting that comedy is very much the name of the game (some of it at the expense of a certain breed of avant-garde European Shakespearean production), the pair hope that The Complete Deaths will encourage audiences to ponder what it means to traverse what Hamlet calls "the undiscovered country from whose bourn / No traveller returns".
On the flipside, will the unexpected goodwill delivered by the Taliban encourage Kabul to ponder greater concessions?
I encourage you to ponder these things over a cup of warm maté and 5mg of Adderall while delighting in the subtle flavor of a lightly salted slice of avocado on a whole-grain cracker.
The main point, for clients and agencies, is to find your place (and I don't think breakfast meetings count) to talk and listen, to engage, to question, to ponder, to encourage, even to dream, what you can achieve……together.
The competition encourages us to ponder those values with a fresh, unbiased eye.
Mr Sunstein wrote a book, "The Cost-Benefit State", encouraging policymakers to ponder trade-offs when crafting environmental and other regulations.
