Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around House limits on members' outside income; honorariums for speeches are restricted, but book royalties are not. In several cases Wright's staff members pointed out that the Speaker was near his limit on honorariums and suggested that organizations buy books instead of paying him directly. Wright refused to answer any questions about the book last week; if he or Oldaker has a plausible explanation, neither has come forward with...
Many people hang up when they answer the phone and hear a computerized voice, figuring it is probably a prerecorded sales pitch. Not the folks in Osage, Iowa. Their police department pays for a telephone-dialing computer service that automatically checks up on older people who live alone. At the same time every day, the computer calls them and says, "Good Morning! Are you O.K. ?" If they answer "Yes," the computer hangs up and goes on to the next number. If no one answers, the computer alerts the police...
Sunbathers are concerned about protecting their skin these days, but nobody likes to handle greasy, gritty suntan-lotion bottles. One entrepreneur's answer is Sun Center, a vending machine that dispenses tanning oil with a spray applicator. A customer activates the spritzer by depositing 50 cents. A hand-held nozzle then emits a light mist for 40 seconds, generally enough to cover those hard-to-reach places...
...official strategy for evading an answer is to focus resolutely on the high-minded events of 1789, like the Declaration of Rights, with its ideals of liberty, equality, and the sovereignty of the people. As for the blood that flowed thereafter -- the September Massacres of 1792, the Terror of 1793, and the 1793-94 uprising of the Vendee in which 400,000 died -- the less said the better. The play-it-safe politics of the commemoration is aimed at creating at least the illusion of ideological harmony, the same strategy that has sparked Mitterrand's recent political success...
Council members may fear that a reversal will make them look flighty, and they are probably right. But the body must put aside political concerns to answer to justice...