Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jack Kennedy is the answer to slick Dick Nixon, who will almost certainly be the Republican candidate. It's only a matter of time now until Kennedy's enemies begin circulating the stories about building a tunnel to the Vatican or bringing the Pope to Washington, but Jack's religion makes no difference to me-he gets my vote...
...extraordinary capacity for concentrating every faculty on the work at hand, whether it were reading, writing, listening, or boxing. Thus he would read by himself in a room half-filled with noisy students without having his attention distracted even for an instant; indeed, he would make no answer to questions addressed directly to him, and did not seem to hear them...
...answer to rising educational costs said Harris, "lies in drastic changes in our methods of charging for a college education...
THRIFT CLASS AIR SERVICE will be airlines' answer to CAB's request for cut in North Atlantic fares. New service would trim U.S.-to-Europe fares by 20%, but offer only sandwich-and-coffee meals, have 34 inches between seats v. 43 inches on tourist flights. Airlines at same time would boost tourist and first-class fares by about 9%, set London-New York rates of thrift class at $252; tourist $315 (up from $290), first class $435 (up from $400). But CAB frowns on "austerity service" and higher rates, may veto plan...
...PRESSING question for every U.S. businessman, to say nothing of his stockholders, is: how will profits be in the near future? Very often the answer is gloomy. Executives mutter about the "profit squeeze" and "profitless prosperity," point ominously to figures showing that while sales increased more than 100% in ten years, net profits declined from 5.2% of sales in 1947 to only 3.5% last year. But the figures are misleading. The so-called profit squeeze is more apparent than real, simply because companies are spending so much money on replacement and expansion programs that have cost $264 billion since World...