Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disseminate information to the visitors and have them mingle with the townspeople, who act the way good people do who are not accustomed to being juxtaposed with too many celebrities: a little jumpy and voluble. A woman asked privately, "Did Theodore Roosevelt draw in this many in 1902?" [Answer: No.] A young visitor from Long Island saw a crop duster circling the cotton fields near the new school where the meeting would take place, and thought it might be a Government plane looking for Communists...
Last week they learned the answer-blinking in the bright sunlight, his hair snow white and his skin almost alabaster, "El Señor Protasio," now 77 emerged nervously from the home where he had hidden in fear since 1939 Blue eyes shining, he told the improbable story of his self-imposed 38-year imprisonment, which outlasted even Franco's long dictatorship...
...Americans really be persuaded that less is more? The nation's automakers, who for years emphatically argued precisely the opposite, are now betting heavily the answer is yes. With the start of the annual model changeover period, they have begun a massive retooling effort in which they will spend a record amount, some $2.5 billion, to bring about the broadest changes since Detroit sprouted tail fins in the 1950s. Now the industry's favorite new verb is "downsizing," and the products that will begin appearing in showrooms in about eight weeks will define what that means: cars that...
...unchartered new era in which the old rules no longer apply? That question has been nagging many businessmen and policymakers who are concerned and puzzled about the persistence of relatively high inflation at a time of expanding employment and steady recovery. One man who thinks he has the answer is Dale Jorgenson, a Harvard economist whose thinking about the mid-1970s American economy is attracting increasing attention...
...answer is that abortion is morally wrong-even, some say, a blithely conducted form of infanticide. There are painfully compelling reasons to oppose abortion; philosophers and theologians have done so for many centuries. The Hippocratic Oath includes a stricture against aiding an abortion. (Many medical schools now use a rephrased version of the oath to circumvent the abortion issue.) The procedure involves the destruction of a form of human life-life in utero, but life nonetheless. By the sixth week, almost all of the human organs are in place; by the eighth, brain-wave activity can be detected. The right...