Word: answer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does the device threaten U.S. security? The answer, NSA replied in the spirit of catch-22, is classified. The inventors have invested $30,000 in their project and received nothing in return. Complains Raike: "We feel that the Government has illegally seized our property...
...Rhodesian grant raises an ancient and troubling question: Just how deeply should the church get involved in violent political disputes? The W.C.C. staff, headed by General Secretary Philip Potter, a West Indian activist who refuses to answer questions on Rhodesia, believes that Christian justice demands the "liberation" of oppressed peoples, a program that includes an end to white minority governments. And in that process, violence may be necessary. The Rhodesian grant, in fact, is popular among most Third World churches, and was approved by Canada's Anglican Primate E.W. Scott and other officers. The overall antiracist grants program survived unscathed...
What keeps the welfare rolls long? One answer may be that Government programs and the tax system work to reduce the incentive for the deprived to take jobs, at least in areas where welfare benefits are high. That is the conclusion of an analysis of inner-city family income in Los Angeles by Economist Arthur ("Curve") Laffer, who has popularized the theory that lower tax rates lead to increased business activity and therefore to higher tax revenues...
Although Jews constitute only 3% of the U.S. population, 80% of the nation's professional comedians are Jewish. Why such domination of American humor? New York City Psychologist Samuel Janus, who once did a yearlong stint as a stand-up comic, thinks that he has the answer: Jewish humor is born of depression and alienation from the general culture. For Jewish comedians, he told the recent annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, "comedy is a defense mechanism to ward off the aggression and hostility of others...
...stories will have to convey the continuing sense that this new LIFE, like the old one, is deeply involved with the world it covers, that its capacity for wonder, conviction and caring is as big as ever . . . This is a different magazine, but there is still just one answer for us: 'picture magic' again...