Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer, Administration officials argue that too often in the past the U.S. has ended up on the losing side of liberation struggles and that its belated courting of black African opinion makes good economic as well as political sense. U.S. trade with Nigeria, as Ambassador Young frequently points out, already exceeds that with South Africa. The Administration's policy is based on the firmly held premise that whether or not Washington supports it, Smith's internal settlement is a prescription for civil...
...could face the Hobson's choice of impotent neutrality in the event of a civil war or lonely support for a regime denounced by almost all of Africa and already stigmatized in American documents as "illegitimate." The big question-for which Cy Vance will seek the answer on his forthcoming African mission-is whether it is too late to sell all of Rhodesia's nationalist factions on a reasonable alternative...
...better than anything else available." Nonetheless, bar officials realize that the system requires improvement. In an effort to make it function better, a blue-ribbon committee of the A.B.A. is currently revising the 1969 Code of Professional Responsibility. A vague, well-meaning document, the code provides few clear-cut answers to the problems facing the modern legal profession. A.B.A. President William Spann asks, for example, "Is the lawyer obligated to blow the whistle on a client who ignores his legal advice and violates the law?" The answer is muddy under the current code, but most lawyers generally reply...
...question that the Greenfelds ask themselves constantly is just how long Noah can stay. The answer is put off day by day. Entry for Jan. 2, 1976: "If Foumi or I became ill, for example, he would have to go. But right now we do enjoy Noah, as a love object, as a living presence, ... I think everyone has a Noah, something dear and treasured that will be foreclosed too soon. Only ours is of our blood and tissue...
...solid-state circuitry. The consumer today relies on powered handy-andies to perform the gamut of erstwhile manual chores: to carve, squeeze, blend, mix, whip, grind, toast, grill, simmer, brew, stew, waffle, percolate, fry, dry, polish, drill, sharpen, sweep, vacuum, brush, iron, comb, curl, open cans, close pores and answer the phone...