Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network that Justice Harry Blackman, author of the 1973 opinion of Roe v. Wade, had requested more time to complete a "bitter" opinion in opposition to one by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. But this report did not say which way the court would rule. There was no answer at the home of the court's press officer...
...whose typically complex plot deals with the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race. A subject like that, of course, requires accuracy and special attention to detail. How does Le Carre get his information about so arcane a field? Readers of the author's acknowledgments in The Russia House know the answer: Le Carre relied on a first-class expert, Strobe Talbott, TIME's Washington bureau chief and himself the author of several books on the subject...
...possible that where people live can determine what medical treatment they receive? Surprisingly, the answer is yes. "There is an underlying assumption that two doctors in two different places will prescribe the same treatment," says Dr. Phil Caper, who founded the Codman Research Group in Lyme, N.H., to study variations in the patterns of physician care. "That just...
...could such a scandal remain uncovered for so long? The answer lies partly in the fact that no one was looking. During the Reagan years, Congress was more interested in blocking budget cutbacks than in examining how Pierce ran his department. Since housing was an unglamorous beat, few journalists paused to investigate what was going on under Silent...
Without the constitutional prohibition against a third term, might he have run again? Reagan, in his first full interview since leaving the White House, gave that slow, easy smile, ducked his head in a kind of protest against such audacity. "I cannot answer that, really," he said. "With ((the 22nd Amendment)) in place, you did not even think of it. You knew that it was all over at the end of two terms." Hunch: he sure would have...