Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Compelled to act swiftly yet fairly, Californians must now try to answer those difficult questions as best they can. Surely the rest of the nation will be watching their performances very closely. For how California fares in the wake of Proposition 13 may well set public tax and spending patterns for many years to come...
...many people become disabled despite the methods of modern medicine? The answer is that they did not. Under mounting pressure from claimants and their congressional allies, the definition of disability has been stretched to the point where it can cover a case of nerves, a lingering depression, even chronic headaches. Disability claims are now swamping HEW, which has had to hire 650 administrative judges to hear all the appeals?more judges than the entire federal court system uses. Even so, there is a backlog of 133,860 cases. If their claims are rejected by HEW, people usually resort...
...school board in Acadia Parish, La., was ordered by HEW to answer a five-page questionnaire dealing with two applicants for teaching jobs. After the entire central office staff spent three days wrestling with the forms, the board decided to give up $150,000 in federal aid rather than waste any more time. A Tulsa...
...Department of Energy distributes free teaching aids for schools. Among them are an impressive array of questionnaires accompanied by answer sheets. An example: a sheet showing three pictures of homes asks, "What's Wrong Here?" The sketches depict, among other things, open windows in the middle of winter, a running water faucet and one passenger in a car. For small kids, there are wall posters with cartoons showing what should be done to save: drive small cars, observe the 55-m.p.h. limit, keep the home heat below 70° and take showers rather than soaking in a tub full...
...myopically stingy. Almost every industrial nation is caught in an economic bind. Unemployment is unacceptably high, yet efforts to bring it down by stimulating the domestic economy through tax cuts and heavier government spending might pump up already high inflation. Selling more goods to other industrial nations is no answer, either. It leads to furious charges that the exporting country is destroying jobs in the importing nation; witness the anger in the U.S. and Europe against Japan's export prowess...