Word: answered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also true that this very fact makes fraudulent use of the card much simpler. If one's new Coop card is lost or stolen, $100 worth of charges-the current personal liability limit under Massachusetts statutes-could be run up within a very short space of time. The answer of course, is that the same might be said of the old Coop card Except that it is immensely easier to amass fraudulent charges in several stores than in one, particularly since credit card thieves, according to police evidence, know that they must do their charging as soon as possible after...
...most persuasively address a stone wall: "Suppose a bird flew up to you one day and said, 'If you cut off your toes. I guarantee that the war will end.' Would you do it?" The question seemed reminiscent of grade school and cootie-catchers, but it was easy to answer since we all tend to belittle the importance of our toes and because a talking bird could probably deliver on what it promised. So I replied yes, I would cut off my toes, "Well suppose the bird said to cut off your balls?" That was a very different question...
...mind, and I know that in certain instants, I believed that if we followed through we could, of ourselves, end the war in a month. And so, to the question, what in the world can I do to end the war I suddenly had a terrifying and righteously beguiling answer. I could kill myself...
Some reporters claim that Ziegler has become overcautious because he fears repeating past mistakes. Often, the errors seem due to the fact that officials do not keep him well enough informed. Once deciphered, his B-52 answer proved to be a denial that there had been a decision to start bombing again. Five minutes later he had to reverse himself. Last May, hours after he denied knowledge of a meeting between Attorney General John Mitchell and Chief Justice Earl Warren to discuss the Abe Fortas affair, the Justice Department released news that the two had talked...
...above the going world rate. The Government's solution to that problem was to subsidize exports, beginning in 1956. That move, in turn, created a crisis for domestic mill ers, who complained that they had to pay more for U.S. cotton than competing foreign mills. Washington's answer was to add a third subsidy, this time for the millers...