Word: answering
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...Avoid high, distant views. In the national forests here, the policy of the U.S. Forest Service has been to leave buffer zones of uncut trees along the tourist highways. It is prettier that way. It is also easier for the Forest Service, which has fewer letters of outrage to answer about the scarification that used to be a coastal rain forest...
...black youths more likely to commit crimes than whites? A glance at the nation's prison population would suggest that the answer is yes. But a surprising new federally funded study says not necessarily. In 1976 University of Colorado Sociologist Delbert Elliott began to follow a nationwide cross section of 1,700 young people, ages 11 to 17 at the time. Periodically they reported to him, in confidence, any episodes of their own criminal or delinquent behavior, whether or not they were caught. The finding after ten years: those who were white reported nearly as many crimes as blacks...
James Baker (interrupting). That is so incorrect that I'd like to answer. What took us overnight -- we stayed up almost all night Wednesday, into the next day -- was an attempt to knock down rumor after rumor. That was a much bigger job than dealing with the underlying facts...
Bush. Look, he stood out there for 30 minutes answering questions. I don't know what he was doing. What questions are left? The bottom line is this: he is a man qualified to be Vice President. Is it a good selection? Am I comfortable with it in the face of these allegations? At this point, the answer...
Former President Gerald Ford, who was banished to post-prime time when convention organizers decided he was history. But Ford, who looks as though he has not aged a day since leaving the White House, gave a solid, well-reasoned speech that actually helped answer the question "Where was George...