Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that poetry--or is it just a jingle?" he asked again. No one offered an immediate answer: things were back to normal.CrimsonSteven B. Geovanis...
...Irish poet who, through too many years of personal anguish, had lost his touch. But Frost was anxious to talk with Clarke, and taking him aside, they spent several hours together, Clarke later said that Frost asked him what kind of verse he wrote and uncertain of the proper answer he blurted out. "I load myself with chains and try to get out of them...
Thus, the President moved to give his most definitive answer to date on the question of his own candidacy. Yes indeed he would run, he said at his press conference, although he stopped just short of a formal declaration. "I intend to be a candidate. I believe that I have the best opportunity to solidify the Republican Party, getting strength from both the right as well as the left within the Republican spectrum, and to put on a good campaign against the individual that the Democratic Party nominates...
...Australia has already proved. After Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's Labor government took office in 1972, it fulfilled an election pledge for tariff reform by slashing levies 25% across the board. As late as last December, Whitlam was telling Europeans that "a retreat into economic isolation is no answer for us or any other nation." But even as he spoke, his government was beginning to consider re-establishing stiff import quotas and tariffs...
Such a rejoinder would not be universally applauded. But students observing the mock confrontation in Washington, D.C., considered the answer perfect. The scene was staged during a ten-week course called "Assertiveness Training," the most popular offering in George Washington University's division of continuing education for women. Taught by Psychologist Roland Tanck, the program is one of hundreds of "assertiveness" courses that have recently sprung up at universities and counseling centers...