1.   His mind always at work, Alvin pondered ways to make such programs more appealing to unsophisticated audiences.

2.   Officials are pondering ways to remove the oil from the beaches.

3.   Across the nation, policy-makers are pondering ways to make better fathers of down-on-their-luck men.

4.   Activists ponder ways to reduce her ranks.

5.   But in the past three weeks, those thoughts constantly swirled inside his head, as he pondered ways to escape the latest controversy in his college career.

6.   But the movie deflates every time it returns to its main story, leaving you time to ponder the ways the saber-toothed tiger resembles Joe Camel.

7.   Convinced the actor deserves to pay, McGrath ponders a way to connect the dots between two seemingly disconnected homicides.

8.   Fleck noted that the program did not specifically recommend taking up golf, but it did make her ponder different ways to relate to the men in her workplace.

9.   Meanwhile, James Spader is duct-taped to a chair pondering a way to stop him.

10.   Nikolai Sidorow, who now occupies the Zhirinovsky apartment, pondered ways of making money out of it.