Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...author for 18 years, I shudder at your revelations about poor rates paid to freelance writers [April 10]. But you omitted the other side. Does every person with the price of a Smith-Corona deserve to be called freelance? The sobering answer: most editors' greatest complaint is that many "writers" don't bother to read a copy of the magazine before submitting articles and wildly miss the publication's slant. So-called freelancers fail to deliver assignments more than 50% of the time and have an awesome record of not meeting deadlines...
...inexperienced staff may not know what they are doing either. Notes Anthony Moffett, a Democratic Congressman from Connecticut: "People are saying to him, 'Tell me where I'm going and I'm ready to go.' But they aren't getting an answer." A revealing account of this uncertainty came from a Carter campaign veteran who is now a White House aide: "I really think that for all his political career, Jimmy was so busy becoming something, so busy achieving political office that he never really had time to sit down and decide...
...court, when the charges were read to the three defendants, Gray defiantly shouted his answer: "Not guilty!" The other two entered similar pleas. They were all released on their own recognizance-a trial is not expected before fall-but they had to undergo the embarrassment of being mugged and fingerprinted, and having these documents added to the criminal files of the agency they once ruled...
...answer was no: the ruling Christian Democrats firmly rejected the kidnapers' demand to bargain for an exchange of jailed terrorists. They did propose that the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas, act as intermediary to seek other "possible ways" to save Moro's life. In a dramatic eleventh-hour move, Pope Paul appealed directly to the kidnapers. "I beg you on my knees, free the Honorable Aldo Moro simply, unconditionally," the Pope wrote in his own microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity...
...malaise has its roots in the worldwide recession of 1974 and 1975. At first Sweden seemed to have found its own unique answer to the slump: ignore it so as to be ready for the expected global economic upturn. While other countries struggled with recession and layoffs, the Socialist government of Prime Minister Olof Palme simply subsidized industry. Companies were paid to maintain full production and full employment, even when they could not sell and had to stockpile their goods in anticipation of a surge in demand. The immediate result was a flush of apparent prosperity, which allowed militant unions...