Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything beyond buying a beer-is staggering." In London the directory of civil servants is classified information under the Official Secrets Act, so Lawrence Malkin was surprised to find that in New Delhi senior government officials' telephones are not only publicly listed, but also that the officials answer the phone...
...American couple scoffingly laughed in reply and dismissed it all as nonsense. Clearly satisfied by the Americans' answer-and equally clearly unsurprised by it-President Amin then took us off in his British-made Range Rover for a personally conducted tour of the still bullet-and bazooka-shattered section of Entebbe airport, where Israeli troops last July staged their stunningly successful raid to rescue hijack hostages from pro-Palestinian kidnapers...
Does the world really need another conductor of Beethoven, Bruckner, Mahler and the other immortals? If his name is Klaus Tennstedt, the answer is a fortissimo yes. Unknown to the majority of American music lovers, the former East German maestro has become one of the most sought-after guest conductors in the U.S. Watching, the onlooker may wonder why: on the podium the man often resembles a stoned stork. Hearing his music is another matter: Tennstedt elicits a sound with the startling ring of rightness. Indeed, his musical logic may be the most profound since the late Otto Klemperer...
America's current spirit of skepticism toward Sci-Tech is, above all, the popular response to that question. The answer is a no so resounding that when it came, it was mistaken for a mortal war on science. So alarmed was Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences, that in 1972 he preached publicly on the urgent need to stave off the "crumbling of the scientific enterprise." Today, with that enterprise clearly waxing (federal funding for science this year: $24.7 billion, up 67% in eight years), Handler's excessive reaction may seem like that...
...some courses on the list the answer is easy. Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," has been the largest fall course for five years, and it keeps its hold on first place in the spring automatically because it is virtually impossible to drop the course. Chemistry 20b, "Organic Chemistry," which drew 365 students this semester, is a perennial pre-med favorite...