Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union organizers and staff set up "drop in centers" campus wide to answer questions about the contract. But no membership meetings were called so that rank-and-file members could hear each other's concerns and opinions and debate with one another prior to the vote. Instead, the union office launched a vigorous pro-ratification campaign designed to guarantee acceptance of the contract and smother rank-and-file critical debate...
Does this mean that the Soviets will let Poland and Hungary drift as far as they want? Even Gorbachev might not know the answer to that question. What seems likely now is that Moscow may tolerate Poland's political pluralism and Hungary's economic experimentation, but it will be tempted to intervene if either seemed about to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact and expel Soviet troops...
...until 80 minutes later did an answer arrive at Bodo: the Soviets declined help, obviously not eager to have foreigners, especially military men from a NATO country, clambering on their sub or plucking their sailors from the sea. Later in the day, Soviet officials revealed that an air seal in the cooling unit of one of the vessel's nuclear reactors had ruptured. By that time, the stricken sub, an Echo II-class vessel with a crew of about 90 and believed to be carrying eight nuclear missiles, had begun crawling eastward under auxiliary diesel power, escorted by a Soviet...
...fourth woe was also a factor. Upset over Uno's refusal to answer questions about the alleged affair, female voters deserted the L.D.P. Manae Kubota, a J.S.P. legislator who broke tradition in the Diet when she raised questions about the Prime Minister's personal life, believes that the L.D.P. is suffering because of Uno's actions. "I raised such a 'low-level' question because a man in the highest public office was suspected of the lowest-level deed," said Kubota. "For me it is surprising that a person in a high public office should deal with women like merchandise...
...would be an injustice to reduce my firstyear to one long drinking story. Some of my bestfirst-year memories are of marathon conversationswith a friend in my entryway who could completethe entire Sunday New York Times crossword puzzlein under an hour and seemed to know the answer toany question I asked-including the mysteries of Ec10...