Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...answer that. I think that Mr. Begin has fairly well expressed his opinion in public. There were some private conversations that made me optimistic. I think he also feels optimism...
...overflow crowd packed Room 3302 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building last week, drawn by the promise of a heated confrontation between Budget Director Bert Lance and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee. Lance had been called to answer accusations that he had acted improperly while president of the National Bank of Georgia, his job before joining the Carter Administration. The major charge was that the Georgia bank had wrongly deposited $200,000 of its funds at Chicago's First National Bank in exchange for a personal loan to Lance of $3.4 million (TIME...
...sociobiology did not arise from molecular studies but as an answer to a century-old gap in Darwinian theory: Darwin could not fully explain why some organisms help other members of their species. His theory held that every organism fights for its own survival and chance to reproduce, not that of others. Since altruistic behavior reduces an organism's chances to survive, evolution should be expected to breed it out of all species. Still, some birds risk their lives for the flock by crying out to warn of the presence of a predator?thus chancing attracting the attention...
...under the canopies covering the caviar at auction-weekend parties, the talk was peppered with the names of sires: What A Pleasure, Round Table, Sir Ivor, Northern Dancer. A casual comment about one filly brought the quick question: "How was she bred, ma'am?" The equally quick answer: "By Secretariat out of Crimson Saint by Crimson Satan, seven wins in eleven starts for over $90,000." That yearling was gaveled off at Keeneland a few days later for $275,000; another, by Bold Bidder, went for $400,000, just $5,000 shy of the record for a filly...
...that writing first appeared in Mesopotamia around 3100 B.C. in the form of an elaborate system of symbols that were probably used for keeping temple records. But where did the ancients get the idea for their epochal invention? A University of Texas archaeologist may have at last provided the answer. Denise Schmandt-Besserat has found evidence that writing evolved from a much older record-keeping system that is still used in the Middle East. If her theory is correct, it pushes the roots of writing back at least 5,000 years...