Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the court gave its answer: "We find no instance in which the com mission [violated] the governing statute" -which gives it "broad discretion" to approve whatever projects it judges best suited to the nation's needs. Before exer cising this discretion, said the court, the FPC gave "mature consideration" to both plans and concluded-on the basis of the evidence-that each was "equally comprehensive." Weighing in favor of the private project was the fact that Congress has consistently refused to authorize a federal dam. Hence, the FPC "chose between a $400 million plan, which nobody...
...Egypt's familiar grievances against the French and British. Then he purred: "Foremost in importance [is] a system of cooperation between the Egyptian authority operating the Suez canal and the users of the canal." When the foreign ministers around the table heard that word "cooperation," they had their answer...
Last week, aghast at this odd Western way of doing things, but helpless to combat it, the Russians permitted burly Nina to go to court to answer the charge of stealing five cheap hats from London's C. & A. Modes, Ltd. (TIME, Sept. 10). "I hope you won't put it against her," the shoplifting athlete's British counsel, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, told the court, "that she failed to surrender earlier." During the four hours of testimony that followed, Nina, wearing the same fawn-colored gabardine in which she was arrested, stoutly insisted that she had paid...
...answer to his critics, such as Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '28 who branded him as a publicity-seeker and called his confiscation motion "probably the most asinine proposal ever brought before a legislative body," Vellucci has this to say: "Sometimes administrators become procrastinators--that goes both for Dr. Pusey and for city manager Curry. Sometimes they intend to do something, but they don't get around to doing it. The only way to shake up the administration of Harvard is to use the tactics I have been using...
...answer to continued controversy, Alfred F. Hofeld '58, treasurer of the Council, explained that he had advocated association with NSA "for one more year on a trial basis" in order to determine once and for all the value of the organization to the Student Council...