Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Correspondent Pollard asked Teacher Levine why she chose TIME as the class textbook. Her answer: "It is the most readable and complete newsmagazine in America...
...principal topics of 47 leading economists who were asked by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress to examine the question: can the U.S. achieve maximum (or full) employment as laid down in the Employment Act of 1946 and at the same time achieve stable prices? The economists' answer: No. Said University of Michigan Economist Gardner Ackley: "We cannot aim at absolutely full employment, or even 98% employment, unless we are willing to accept considerable inflation...
Time for Tranquilizers. Well, then, what can be done to rekindle the desire? "The answer is not simple," said Brower, "because the mediocrity of salesmanship is only part of our pattern of being willing to settle for something less than the best. For this, in America, is the high tide of mediocrity, the great era of the goof-off. The land has been enjoying a stampede away from responsibility...
...excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
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...ceiling of the Connecticut farmhouse. Suddenly "Sandy" Calder stood up, walked outside past sentrylike steel stabiles, shuffled to a nearby creek. Staring at the soft, easy ripples, Calder exclaimed: "Look at those tiny waves, circling, soothing, yet so much alive! People ask me the meaning of a mobile. My answer is 'what is the meaning of this water, of a sunset...