Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kremlin has just discovered that the world is round," confides one Soviet bureaucrat to another. "How's that?" asks his puzzled colleague. Answer: "All that garbage we've been throwing at the West has finally come back to us from the East...
...choice. Though the country's coal reserves are the world's largest, they lie mostly in Siberia. Mining this coal is costly; transporting it thousands of miles to the main cities is difficult; burning it in large amounts will cause environmental problems. Oil is not the answer either; the U.S.S.R. is so desperate for hard currency that it sells much of its oil abroad. It is also running low and has resorted to costly tertiary recovery methods in some of its fields. Solar energy, which Americans hope eventually will ease their energy problems, is not taken seriously...
...limit on the increase in federal taxes, a 5¾% [ceiling on the] increase in overall federal spending and a freeze on net new regulations." William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate banking committee, said last week that guidelines may have "some value" but "there is one answer and one answer only at this time-cut spending." He urges cuts of 5% to 10% in the budgets of all federal departments and agencies...
...election of Jim Deutsch '80 over RAZA minority representative George Sanchez '80 for the vice-chairmanship cleared remaining doubts about the nature of the assembly. Deutsch, who favors Faculty recognition of the assembly, said during the question and answer period, "If we're not taken seriously by the Faculty and administration, then we're not being responsible to the people who elected us." Deutsch's other responses also seemed to place him to the right of Sanchez, who pleased the "Anti-Junior-Politico" sect by his response to a question as to whether he was a Government concentrator: "I came...
Funny things happen to about 400 men during their sophomore year. They hear a knock on the door, and rising to answer it, they notice an ivory envelop which has been slipped under the door. The door is opened, and sleuth-like, the messenger is nowhere to be seen...