Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...huge Renaissance-style city hall, a handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young demonstrator. "What other policy would you have us follow?" The student's quick answer: "A Communist policy." Said another young ultra: "You've given up fighting to change the system, you only want to save it. That's why you're trying to isolate...
...real answer to that question must necessarily be a reaffirmation of affirmative action and the role universities should play in designing recruitment programs to help move us towards a more equal society...
...Seven thousand dollars a year, and what do you get? Cold cereal in the morning (and don't forget the additives) served in plastic bowls, three bean salad, and, beginning last year, Feedback. And what, you rightfully ask, is Feedback? It would. I suppose, be too facile to simply answer, "Just what the name implies." It seems that the Food Services were recently bequeathed several million reams of top-quality 100 per cent rag content paper and have hired both a dead codfish and retired songstress Hildegard Knish (pronounced K'nish) to write their publicity releases. (Just how come...
...kingdom, there is some superlative photography. Candice Bergen, for example, has produced a haunting study of Joel Schumacher, who wrote the screenplays for Car Wash and is currently working on a film version of The Wiz. The accompanying interview, with Liz Smith, is in a seemingly unedited question-and-answer format that often rambles, full of generalities. In this case, however, writer and subject are friends of long standing so they have a rapport lacking in some of the other pieces. You may not agree with Schumacher's most profoundly-held life truth, "that the world is divided between people...
...says Otto Eckstein entrepreneurial economist, "how many clients are speaking with our computer at this moment." The good doctor presses a shiny gray key of a Burroughs 7700 computer, and out whirs the answer: 113. Then he touches another key, and the computer spits the names of those 113 paying customers. Among them are the departments of State, Treasury, Commerce and Justice and two dozen other federal agencies. Then there are Morgan Guaranty, Bank of America, Citibank and a score more banks, and American Can, Dow Chemical, Exxon, Shell, among many other industrial giants...