Natasha became depressed and began drinking heavily, once contemplating suicide.
Ed, who was drinking heavily, seriously contemplated "checking out" of life altogether, but instead he dried out and found spirituality in "A Course in Miracles," a book he picked up at a New Age bookstore.
Military intervention in Syria has little prospect of success, a high risk of disastrous failure, and a near-certainty of escalation which should make the experience of Iraq weigh extremely heavily on anyone contemplating such an intervention.
The human and financial toll from the 2003 invasion ordered by former President George W. Bush looms heavily over policymakers contemplating what to do next in Iraq.
For that reason, citizens of the C-suite shouldn't rely too heavily on existing data when they're contemplating making a change.
Though Green was caring for Farrar in the family home while he recovered from his repeated bouts of illness, she was also continuing to drink heavily and, increasingly often, claiming to be contemplating suicide or to want Margaret Hacker dead.
The last time I wrestled with this issue was about 10 years ago when John Kerry was contemplating a run for the presidency and calculating how heavily to exploit his wartime command of a riverboat in Vietnam.
By the late 1980s the all-out strike was history; no union could ask its heavily mortgaged members to contemplate anything more than a one or perhaps two-day strike.
The Government-owned Export-Import Bank of Japan, whose principal mission is to help heavily indebted third world countries build their economies with low-interest loans, is contemplating its first loans to an industrialized country: the United States.
The club is expected to spend heavily on new players, with Tottenham's Luka Modric remaining a target and Villas-Boas contemplating a bid to bring the Columbian striker Falcao with him from Porto.
Still, for firms contemplating moving service jobs to India for the first time, GE's decision will weigh heavily in the balance against setting up a captive.
