Word: answering
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Blackman notes that on her recruiting trips, the main question she must answer is why talented minority students, who are much sought after, should pass up a lucrative career for the academic life...
Transportation experts generally agree that in most cases a huge highway- building program is not the answer. "We cannot pour asphalt and concrete on the ground fast enough, and in the face of today's political and social environment, I am not sure that people would accept it," says Robert Farris, chief of the Federal Highway Administration. As a practical matter, the cost of buying up suburban houses worth at least $250,000 apiece for a right-of-way would be prohibitive...
What's going on here? Are young moviegoers tiring of summer comedies and eager for a little dog-days shock therapy? Not likely: the season's other horror movies have been flops. Then is the answer just Freddy, the perfect freak-out counselor for an evening of summer camp? Not quite. Sure, he's got loads more personality than Jason, the goalie-masked monster of the seven Friday the 13th bloodfests. As Englund describes Freddy, "He has a bantam- cock swagger, an arrogant sexual thrust, like Jimmy Cagney." The ex- janitor can be pathetic too: "I picture...
...would such a woman, an Oxford graduate and the daughter of a wealthy London real estate agent, choose to devote her life to death? One answer is her religion. Converted from atheism as a gawky, somewhat gauche, young woman, she went through a period of evangelistic fervor, during which she was a Billy Graham counselor, before she finally settled into the Anglican church. Her faith created much apprehension among doctors when St. Christopher's first opened. "We suspected she wanted to produce deathbed conversions," says Consulting Psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes. "How wrong we were." Insists Dame Cicely: "There...
When applied, the Reagan Doctrine worked. Which one factor best predicts the locus of a Soviet imperial withdrawal? The answer is not a colony's proximity to the Soviet Union, nor its ideological purity, nor the amount of Soviet investment. The single factor that best predicts a Soviet retreat is the strength and consistency of foreign support for the anti-Soviet resistance. American aid to the Afghan resistance has been massive, and the policy has ( enjoyed universal support at home. The Soviets are retreating. In Cambodia and Angola, American support for the guerrillas has been less intense but still generally...