Word: answering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to attempt a simple answer to problems of race and ethnicity in America. It is dangerous when one limits the application of rights, consciously or no, in definitions too narrow for the reality...
...Pipes says that the snappy question-and-answer format of television news shows does not always mesh easily with scholars' customary form of discourse...
...They don't want long expositions. You have to be very succinct," he says. "You really have about 20 seconds to answer their questions...
...People are asking 'What has happened,' `What's going to happen tomorrow,' but at the same time you can't answer any of those questions if you don't know what happened yesterday, a week ago, 10 years ago," says Goldman...
Peter G. Peterson, an American involved in the Sony-Columbia deal, wondered why Sony's acquisition was so controversial, while an Australian firm's attempted takeover of MGM/UA "was mainly treated by the media as a minor business news item." Part of the answer, he suggested in the Wall Street Journal, is a "media pandering to American xenophobia and latent racism." Sony chairman Akio Morita, noting the U.S. Government's World War II internment of Japanese Americans, surmised that Americans still see the Japanese as "strangers...