Word: answered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...send aloft the Hubble Space Telescope. The so-called ST will fly above the earth's atmosphere, whose turbulence limits the clarity of astronomical photos taken from the planet's surface. The ST's forte will thus be the sharpness of its pictures, which astronomers hope will help answer long-standing questions about the structures of distant galaxies and mysterious pinpoints of light called quasars, and about whether other stars have planets similar to earth...
...meantime, Tompa and his colleagues have the technology to answer some interesting questions. Given the 2,435,671 quotations included in the OED2, which single author wins the citation sweepstakes? Most people would guess Shakespeare, and they would be right: 33,150 times. But who comes second? Tompa's keyboard clicks away, and the answer soon appears: Sir Walter Scott...
...equipment, the agency has closed the gap to $50 million. But as peak season approaches, officials are concerned that the tax-collection system might overheat from the heavy workload. The agency admits that 1 out of every 3 callers to the tax-information hot line is given a wrong answer, and some employees have doubled up on their responsibilities. The IRS says the processing of returns will probably not be affected, although some cheats could slip by undetected...
...second act, Heidi (played by Joan Allen) stands behind a lectern on a bare stage, giving a luncheon speech to the alumnae of the prep school she once attended. Slowly the successful veneer of Heidi's life is stripped away as she tries to ad-lib a free-form answer to the assigned topic, "Women, Where Are We Going?" Heidi's soliloquy ends with these words: "I don't blame any of us. We're all concerned, intelligent, good women." Pause. "It's just that I feel stranded. And I thought that the whole point was that we wouldn...
...growing paranoia justified? How safe are the U.S. food and water supplies? The reassuring answer: very safe. In fact, the country's food and water systems are the safest in its history and among the safest in the world today. Despite all the alarms, the dangers to human health appear to be quite small...