Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...haven't noticed yet, it gets hot in Africa and vital greenery tends to lack sufficient fertilizer. Is that the right answer...
...show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning a fold there on a muslin pattern. Later, salesmen unload briefcases of fabrics. Kelly picks up a purple knit. He smells it. "Combien?" he inquires. The answer: 125 francs ($20) per meter. "Why so much?" Kelly challenges. The bargaining is serious: Kelly, whose dresses run from $395 to $2,200, builds his business on providing a less expensive alternative to other Paris-based designers...
Telemarketing would not be the complete answer for small towns, because it generally offers mostly minimum-wage jobs. Several studies have found that the full blossoming of a high-tech economy comes only after it receives a heavy dose of defense contracts. The bulk of that money currently goes to the country's heavily populated coastal regions, which have the most congressional representation. Says Tom Daniels, associate professor of regional and community planning at Kansas State: "Look where all the defense dollars are going, and you can see we are creating a bicoastal economy...
...first question is easier to answer: no one knows how far is too far, certainly not with any precision, perhaps not even the Soviets. "Gorbachev has given his clients considerable leeway," says Adrian Hyde-Price, a research fellow at London's Royal Institute of International Affairs. "But he does not seem to have a carefully thought-through policy for the longer term. It is a dreadful double problem: how to open the floodgates without letting too much water rush...
...bayonet point from outside. For all the experimentation, Gorbachev has not come close to renouncing the Brezhnev doctrine, which asserts Soviet authority over the bloc. Gorbachev is not the only one without a thought-through policy. Neither the U.S. nor its Western allies have one either, making an answer to the second question elusive. Only now are Western governments beginning to explore the potentially titanic implications of the changes under...