Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...date, four Democratic presidential hopefuls have announced their candidacies; yet there is no agency in place to respond to their queries about complex election regulations. A recent seminar on Capitol Hill generated 40 questions on the new law, and there is no commission to answer them. Says Fred Wertheimer of Common Cause: "If you get first-rate commissioners and a first-rate professional staff, then you're going to have the law enforced. If you don't, you're going to get a series of scandals down the road...
President Ford chose a fitting occasion, a Manhattan dinner honoring Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, to provide an answer to one of Washington's most intriguing questions: How much power does he intend to give the former New York Governor? The answer, certain to further irk Ford's restive conservative critics, was in effect...
Senator Jackson concludes his interview with your magazine by observing: "People are really looking for answers." On this point, I would heartily agree. The President has provided an answer. The Senator and his colleagues should support that answer or quickly offer one of their...
...crystallizations of everyday wisdom" are elegant indeed. Problem: to pack one dried salt yellowtail in straw so that it can be unwrapped frugally and eaten over a period of time. It must keep up to six months, so some air must get to it but flies must not. The answer in Ishikawa prefecture is to sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness...
...indeed reached an ending, and speculation, though idle, is unavoidable. In what seems to be the only unguarded paragraph in the book, Kawabata's hero, a middle-aged writer, wryly asks his wife the proper retirement age for a novelist. The novel itself is an answer: it is time to stop writing when there is nothing left but professionalism...