Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answer to the former: Great--not a single drop of rain in 10 full days in the Soviet Union, which was amazing for this time of year. The weather was, in fact, so nice that we almost had to wonder if it was planned, staged for our U.S. delegation like so much else that we saw--or were allowed to see--in our role as an official delegation...
...breathing devices over their beards. "You can't afford to get rid of good fire fighters," he says. The two Amish make up half the fire company's day shift; Miller, who owns a harness shop across the street from the station, is usually the first fireman to answer a call...
What to do? Like other experts, the task force, which was set up last September at the request of the Senate's housing subcommittee, concluded that the only answer is building up federal housing subsidies dismantled by the Reagan Administration. Specifically, the group recommended adding almost $3.4 billion to the $13.8 billion budgeted for federally subsidized housing in fiscal 1988. Some $3 billion would be funneled to states to finance a new Housing Opportunity Program to build or rehabilitate low-cost housing; states would be required to match half that outlay, for a total of $4.5 billion. An additional...
...trees. Monuments are scrubbed with Yugoslav shampoo, and telephone lines cut by the Germans in World War II are at last repaired. Since Gorbachev was once party secretary responsible for agriculture, a committee of scientific experts is convened to consider "How many nipples on a cow's udder?" The answer: "It appears that there are four, although the cow was given a plan for five." Hard-to-get consumer goods arrive in shops overnight, goods that "we thought were entered in the Red Book," a Soviet compendium of rare and extinct plant and animal species...
...refused comment about Zia's statement and would not answer questions about the Soviet-Afghan statement, saying only: "Let's let the communique work for itself for a while...